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Perspectives on carbon market integrity, scientific advances, policy developments, and the practical realities of running high-integrity projects in the Global South.

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carbon removal

Written by Teravent's leadership team — scientists, lawyers, engineers, and market practitioners building the registry from the ground up.

📊 Carbon Markets · Featured
Why the voluntary carbon market's credibility crisis is actually an opportunity — if registries hold the line
The past two years of media scrutiny, high-profile project failures, and regulatory attention have been genuinely painful for the voluntary carbon market. But there is another reading: the scrutiny is working. The methodologies that couldn't withstand it are being replaced. The question is whether the institutions that replace them are better — and how you tell the difference.
Wanjiru Kamau, CEO · Oct 2024
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"The market doesn't need more volume. It needs more credibility."
🔬 Science
What IPCC AR6 actually says about carbon removal — and what the market gets wrong
AR6 is unambiguous: CDR is necessary alongside rapid emission reductions. But it also comes with strong caveats about permanence, additionality, and ecosystem risks that the market has been slow to incorporate into credit standards.
Dr. Kwame Asante, CSO
Sep 2024 Science
🏛️ Policy
Article 6 in practice: what carbon market developers in the Global South need to know now
Two years after COP26, Article 6 guidance is clearer — but the pathway to authorization remains expensive and slow for smaller project developers. Here's what's changed, what hasn't, and what it means for your project.
Fatimah Al-Rashid, GC
Aug 2024 Policy
🔬 Science
Enhanced rock weathering is ready for its close-up — but measurement science still has gaps
Field trials in Africa and Asia are producing exciting results. But the measurement challenge — quantifying actual in-situ weathering rates rather than inferring from rock application — remains real, and the market must not get ahead of the science.
Prof. Naledi Khumalo, Board
Jul 2024 Science
⚡ Technology
Building a carbon registry that can't be gamed: architecture decisions and hard trade-offs
Every registry faces the same basic problem: how do you make a ledger that's simultaneously open, auditable, and resistant to manipulation? We share the architecture decisions we made building Teravent's platform — and why we made them.
Tomás Okafor-Silva, CTO
Jun 2024 Technology
📊 Carbon Markets
The case for Global South-led carbon registries — and why it matters beyond optics
Most carbon registries are headquartered in Europe or North America. Most carbon projects are in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This structural misalignment has real consequences for whose interests are prioritised — and how standards get set.
Wanjiru Kamau, CEO
May 2024 Markets