In our latest webinar, we explored how carbon as a commodity is shaping the future of the Voluntary Carbon Market, driving innovation in investment structures, enabling risk management, and offering measurable climate impact in a maturing market.
AlliedOffsets’ Brad Weilbacher opened the session with an overview of current market trends, including insights from our forecast model, which highlights where the market may be heading in the coming years.
Webinar introduction slides: an overview of the current state of the VCM
The panel then went on to discuss infrastructure utilised for the generation, transfer and retirement of credits, digitilisation of the carbon market ecosystem and the impacts of commoditisation and carbon as a financial asset. Including:
Infrastructure
How carbon credits are generated, issued, transferred, and retired, and the challenges in aligning these processes with evolving regulatory and investor expectations.
Digitalisation and data
How the digitisation of registries, tokens, and data systems is modernising the VCM, making it more transparent, and scalable.
Carbon as a financial asset
What the commoditisation of carbon means for market design, financial innovation, and the development of investment-grade instruments.
We were joined by an expert panel who brought diverse perspectives from finance, legal, corporate, and standards-setting bodies:
- Anthony Stevens, Head of Innovation, Digital Assets and Financial Markets, Northern Trust
- Deanna Reitman, Partner, Faegre Drinker
- Cornelius Streit, VP, Global Carbon Operations, Bayer CropScience
- Andrew Howard, Chief Strategy and Policy Officer, Verra
- Brad Weilbacher, Business Development, AlliedOffsets (moderator)
A big thank you to all who joined us live! If you missed the session, or want to revisit the discussion, you can now watch the full webinar below.