Carbon Market Watch recommendations to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body: sustainable development tool

Carbon Market Watch argues that the Article 6.4 sustainable development tool should rely on its own internal principles and criteria for risk assessments rather than external national or international regulations to ensure consistency and integrity. The organization also identifies a loophole in the Do-No-Harm Risk Assessment flowchart and criticizes the conditional recognition of Indigenous legal systems based on their consistency with national legislation.

• The current structure of the sustainable development tool risks integrity by making risk assessments too dependent on external national and international regulations, which can vary in stringency between host Parties.
• Carbon Market Watch recommends that the SD tool's own principles and criteria serve as the primary basis for risk assessments and monitoring plans, with external regulations acting only as complements that do not undermine these minimum requirements.
• A loophole exists in the Do-No-Harm Risk Assessment flowchart (Section 5, Figure 1) that allows the risk assessment of potential negative environmental and social impacts to be bypassed if no host party regulation or private actor policy is available for an applicable guiding question.
• The tool's current requirement to recognize Indigenous legal systems only when they are consistent with national legislation is insufficient for upholding the rights of Indigenous Peoples in cases of conflict between the two systems.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2024). Carbon Market Watch recommendations to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body: sustainable development tool. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CMW-SD-tool-recommendations.pdf

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Carbon Market Watch recommendations to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body: sustainable development tool. 2024. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CMW-SD-tool-recommendations.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2024carbon, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Carbon Market Watch recommendations to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body: sustainable development tool}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2024}, month = aug, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CMW-SD-tool-recommendations.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }