¿Una distribución justa del mercado voluntario del carbono?

The document examines the prevalence and quality of benefit-sharing agreements in the voluntary carbon market (VCM). Based on an Öko-Institut study, it finds that most carbon standards and projects lack clear, enforceable mechanisms to distribute financial and non-financial benefits to local communities. It highlights a critical confusion between 'benefit-sharing' and 'payment for results' (such as salaries or payments for ecosystem services), arguing that the former should be a separate share of profits. The brief concludes that the absence of uniform definitions and the opposition of major standards to mandatory rules hinder the equitable distribution of carbon credit revenues.

• Standard carbon credit programs rarely mandate benefit-sharing arrangements. Of five selected standards, only two (ACR and Plan Vivo) mentioned them in regulatory documents, and Plan Vivo was the only one to require a "mecanismo de distribución de beneficios".
• Evidence of actual benefit distribution is extremely scarce across projects. Out of 47 projects reviewed, only 15 mentioned benefit-sharing in their design documents, and only four of those provided evidence of distribution to stakeholders other than the project implementers.
• There is a significant lack of distinction between benefit-sharing and payments for results. Most projects use payments for ecosystem services (PES), which the report characterizes as similar to wages or salaries rather than a true distribution of profits.
• Major voluntary carbon market standards have resisted the implementation of mandatory benefit-sharing rules. CAR, ACR, and VCS rejected the mandatory nature of such agreements proposed by the ICVCM, citing concerns over confidential information and a lack of specialized management capacity.
• The absence of a uniform definition for 'benefit-sharing' leads to poor implementation and confusion with 'co-benefits'. While co-benefits generally refer to sustainable development gains from project execution, benefit-sharing refers to the distribution of revenues from the sale of carbon credits.

APA

Otis, L., & Dufrasne, G. (2023). ¿Una distribución justa del mercado voluntario del carbono? Carbon Market Watch. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CMW_policy_briefing_benefit_sharing_2023_11_ES.pdf

Chicago

Otis, Lindsay, and Gilles Dufrasne. ¿Una distribución justa del mercado voluntario del carbono? Carbon Market Watch, 2023. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CMW_policy_briefing_benefit_sharing_2023_11_ES.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{otis2023una, author = {Otis, Lindsay and Dufrasne, Gilles}, title = {{¿Una distribución justa del mercado voluntario del carbono?}}, institution = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2023}, month = nov, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CMW_policy_briefing_benefit_sharing_2023_11_ES.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }