These initiatives include industry-led dialogues to support countries and the private sector engage with carbon markets to achieve their NDCs and increase ambition via our Business Partnership for Market Implementation (B-PMI); modelling the impacts of Article 6 in conjunction with researchers from the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland; promoting best practice in the voluntary market via the ICROA programme; with the World Bank and the Government of Singapore, pioneering a decentralised metadata platform to bring more transparency to the carbon market; and working with industry and and experts to develop high-level criteria for a set of principles to govern the development of tradable reductions and removals using technology-based carbon sink enhancements.
IETA has been actively engaged in Brazil since 2022, working to support the development of robust carbon market mechanisms and strengthen the country’s role in global climate action. Through partnerships with public institutions, subnational governments, and civil society, IETA has provided technical expertise, capacity building, and policy dialogue to help shape high-integrity climate solutions.
