Objectives
This workshop will enhance your understanding of carbon project integrity from the buyer’s perspective. We will explore how integrity is assessed and why it is critical for the credibility of carbon credits in both compliance and voluntary markets.
Join us together with guest speaker Saras Suteja; carbon EX, a distinguished carbon project risk expert, as we delve into this critical topic.
Background
As carbon projects continue to expand across both compliance and voluntary markets, ensuring their integrity and credibility has become paramount. Robust safeguards are needed to avoid double counting emission reductions, prevent greenwashing, and protect human rights.
Within the voluntary carbon market, two complementary integrity initiatives have risen to embed these safeguards: the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM), which concentrates on the supply side, and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), which addresses the demand side. Their frameworks are reinforced by international standard bodies (Gold Standard, Verra, and ART TREES); ratings agencies (Calyx, Sylvera, and BeZero); and cross-sector collaborations (Carbon Credit Quality Initiative and the Tropical Forest Integrity Guide). Collectively, these actors are forging an emerging consensus on what constitutes “high integrity” and how to achieve it in practice.
Parallel to these system-level efforts, each project must undergo rigorous due diligence to confirm the quality and credibility of the credits it issues. In this context, an additionality score has become an invaluable tool for credit buyers. Serving as a clear risk metric, it expresses the degree of confidence that a project’s emission reductions are truly beyond business as usual; the higher the score, the lower the risk.
Together, these elements help build a transparent, high-integrity market that attracts sustainable finance and delivers shared benefits. This interconnected understanding of additionality and risk is essential for ensuring environmental integrity, increases investor and buyer trust in the market, toward high-quality carbon credits.
Agenda
09.00 – 09.30 Registration and coffee
09.30 – 09.35 Welcoming remarks, Neyen
09.35 – 09.45 Topic introduction, Alvianni Nur Mahmudah, Neyen
Workshop
09.45 – 10.25 Beyond Business-as-Usual: Carbon project integrity from a buyer’s perspective
10.25 – 11.05 Q&A
11.05 – 11.20 Closing and photo session
11.20 – 12.00 Networking session
When and where?
12th June, 09:00 – 12:00 WIB
WeWork Revenue Tower – 25th Floor, Meeting Room 25A
Targeted Participant
This workshop is designed for the private sector, government officials, NGOs, research institutions/universities and intergovernmental organizations that are committed to advancing sustainability initiatives.