Carbon Credit Delivery Risk Management: Protecting Your Offtake Agreements with Insurance

Carbon Credit Delivery Risk Management: Protecting Your Offtake Agreements with Insurance

People often ask us: Why do you pay your claims in carbon credits? The answer is that money doesn’t make the climate good; only replacing a carbon removal credit with a carbon removal can do that. That is why CarbonPool insures carbon credits and pays claims in carbon credits (“in kind”). Paying claims in kind is better for the buyer, better for the climate, and better for the carbon markets. Here’s why. What buyers really need For companies seeking to achieve net zero or mak

CarbonPool is the first startup to join the Forum, a global multistakeholder platform for fostering innovative insurance solutions for the net zero transition CarbonPool is pleased to join the United Nations Environment Programme’s Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero (FIT), a structured dialogue and multistakeholder platform led and convened by the United Nations to support the scaling up of voluntary climate action by the insurance industry. CarbonPool will be the fir

On July 22, CarbonPool and Renoster hosted a webinar on how registry buffer pools have become the carbon market's main mechanism to mitigate against carbon credit reversals and secure permanence - and how that mechanism is at risk of falling far short. You can view the webinar below and read our answers to questions attendees asked during the discussion. For a deep dive on registry buffer pools, and how insurance can serve as a more effective risk mitigation mechanism, you ca

CarbonPool and Renoster have written a new white paper on how the carbon market's current permanence mechanism, registry buffer pools, aren't delivering on their promise of long-term permanence--and how insurance can help. Read on to learn more and download our white paper below. Permanence is a key concern for carbon credit buyers and developers today. Why? Because ensuring that removed carbon stays sequestered (permanence) is critical to slow the pace of global warming, ach