Carbon Market Watch’s COP27 recommendations on key Article 6 topics

Carbon Market Watch (CMW) outlines recommendations for COP27 to ensure transparency, integrity, and climate ambition in the implementation of Article 6. Key proposals include the definitive exclusion of emission avoidance from eligible outcomes, the rejection of tonne-year accounting for removals, and the prohibition of using Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) toward Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). CMW emphasizes that all reporting and registry data should be public, machine-readable, and comprehensive to prevent double counting and ensure accountability.

• Carbon Market Watch recommends that Parties definitively exclude emission avoidance from eligibility under Article 6.2 or 6.4, arguing that the concept is poorly defined and could result in questionable internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs) or Article 6.4 emission reductions (A6.4ERs).
• Regarding carbon dioxide removal, CMW proposes a definition requiring anthropogenic activities to result in net removal from the atmosphere and durable storage for at least two to three centuries in geological, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs. The organization explicitly rejects the use of tonne-year accounting, calling it an inappropriate metric that creates a false equivalence between short-term high-volume storage and long-term low-volume storage.
• CMW argues that Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) must not be used toward NDCs because most are of low quality and unlikely to be additional, which could lead to an overall increase in emissions.
• To ensure transparency and prevent double counting, CMW recommends that the default status of all reported information be "public" and that the Article 6 infrastructure (including the CARP and registries) provide comprehensive, machine-readable, and downloadable data. This includes specific project details such as GPS coordinates, annual baseline emissions, and a public record of all unit transactions to track legal ownership.
• For the delivery of Overall Mitigation in Global Emissions (OMGE), CMW asserts that corresponding adjustments must apply to the minimum 2% of units sent to the cancellation account, including "non-authorised" units, to ensure mitigation outcomes are not simply reflected in the host Party's inventory.

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@misc{carbonmarketwatchndcarbon, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Carbon Market Watch’s COP27 recommendations on key Article 6 topics}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CMWs-COP27-recommendations-on-key-Article-6-topics-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }