BeZero Carbon

For our final newsletter of 2024, discover why it was a breakthrough year for carbon markets. 🌏 🗞️ It’s been a busy twelve months for the market and for BeZero. In this edition we update you on our newest data product, Project Fundamentals, and revisit the past year's key market milestones. We look forward to seeing more breakthroughs in 2025! 

We're delighted to support the Big Issue's Christmas Special for another year. 📰 Best known for tackling homelessness and providing a means of income for people to secure housing and build stable lives, the Big Issue's work unlocks opportunities for all people affected by poverty in the UK to earn, learn, and thrive. Climate change is increasing existing economic inequalities, so this year our message is a reminder for everyone that investing in climate is essential to a sustainable future. 🌍 If you're in the UK, we invite you to grab a copy of the paper sold by your local vendor this week! 🗞️ Learn more about the Big Issue here: https://hubs.li/Q02_W8n00

🔔 In case you missed it, earlier this month we launched Project Fundamentals, helping you transform your carbon project analysis. ⏯️ Find out how in our explainer below ⬇️

How can we make sense of the financial market patterns we're observing in carbon markets? 📊 Our Lead Analytical Officer, Ronan Carr, explores this and the critical role of innovations such as ratings in this year's edition of the Berne Union Yearbook. https://lnkd.in/gu3BgPn6

📢 Looking to design, improve, or assess a carbon project? Project Fundamentals equip market actors with robust, standardised, and decision-ready datasets to enhance project analysis. You might be a developer looking to design a project with conservative carbon accounting, a carbon portfolio manager screening for quality, or a sustainability officer building a credible offsetting strategy. 🌍 From origination to retirement, anyone in the carbon value chain can benefit from instant access to technical project information for evidence-based decision making. ⬇️

See Project Fundamentals in action ➡️ From project developers and investors, to carbon advisors and end buyers, robust fundamental datasets are essential for anyone involved in project design, due diligence, and carbon market research. Swipe to see example use cases and learn more about these here: https://lnkd.in/gEwiEeNg

Last week, our team was in Barcelona for the S&P Global Commodity Insights' Global Carbon Markets Conference! 🇪🇸 We were on the ground to launch Project Fundamentals, our newest product, which provides standardised, digitised, and decision-ready carbon project data. Pascal Hartwig, our Chief Product Officer, explored this recent innovation on the panel 'Making carbon a bankable asset: Collateral requirements, providing insurance, asset classification and risk allocation. Key takeaways: 📈 COP29 made strides in leveraging finance and progressing Article 6 mechanisms, but the next step for the VCM is finding ways to increase demand and scale. Encouraging corporates to actively participate in the market is essential. Ratings agencies can help facilitate that much needed trust. 🌍 There's growing demand for transparency on the non-carbon benefits and risks of climate projects. Buyers value this information, but it's often hard to access or compare across projects. Our Beyond Carbon tools help carbon credit users assess non-carbon risk, including data on project safeguards and claims around the Sustainable Development Goals. 🔍 Learn more about Project Fundamentals and how the data can be used to transform your analysis: https://hubs.li/Q02_3N110 #CarbonMarkets #GCM2024 #CarbonRatings #ProjectFundamentals #BeyondCarbon

How can we create the incentives needed to scale demand for high-quality carbon credits globally? 📈 With agreement on Article 6 being achieved at COP29, the “final piece of the puzzle” for international carbon markets from a supply-side perspective may now be in place. This brings the issue of demand into sharper focus. Read our key takeaways from our policy event co-hosted with ISDA, where we heard from a number of speakers from the EU Commission, who appeared alongside leading voices from the private sector. ⬇️

🚨 Now live - BeZero's Project Fundamentals 📢 Analysts and risk managers need reliable technical information to inform carbon project design, due diligence, and evidence-based decision making. But extracting fundamental project data from PDFs can be slow and inconsistent. Project Fundamentals removes this friction with standardised datasets in analysis-ready formats, along with guidance on how to interpret the 90+ sector-specific parameters available. Learn why instant access to swathes of raw data can accelerate project analysis: https://hubs.li/Q02-HyqR0 #ProjectFundamentals #CarbonCredits #CarbonProjects #VoluntaryCarbonMarket

We were delighted to co-host an event with ISDA in Brussels today, where managing risk in the evolving carbon markets emerged as a key theme. In the words of Sebastien Cross, BeZero's Chief Innovation Officer and Co-founder, "The carbon market needs to learn lessons from financial markets. More sophisticated insurance, risk-adjusted portfolios, and more productisation. Independent, project-specific, risk-based ratings are a vital element across all of these."