Tracking the evolution of global carbon markets
The Climate Focus Carbon Markets Dashboard provides a comprehensive, data-driven view of activity across the global voluntary and emerging compliance carbon markets. Updated monthly, the Dashboard tracks carbon credit issuances, retirements, prices, and project registration data across twelve major carbon standards, offering a transparent lens on how supply, demand, and quality are evolving over time.
The Dashboard is designed to support market participants navigating a carbon market in transition – one increasingly shaped by credit quality, compliance eligibility, and government policy signals. It enables users to move beyond headline news and explore deeper structural trends, including how the evolution of the supply differs across project categories, shifts in side per sector, the supply–-demand balance, growing concentration of supply in newer vintages, shifts in demand toward higher-integrity credits, the role of CCP-labelled supply, and the emergence of new sources of supply such as Article 6 pathways.
Turning data into market insight
Twice a year, Climate Focus publishes its Carbon Markets Review & Outlook, drawing directly on the Dashboard’s underlying data to assess the most important trends shaping the market. Each edition synthesises quantitative market developments with qualitative analysis on pricing dynamics, policy impacts, integrity frameworks, and future supply pipelines.
The bi-annual reports highlight how issuance and retirement trends interact with quality screens, how surplus dynamics are changing, where compliance demand is beginning to materialise, and how mechanisms such as CORSIA and Article 6 are moving from theory into practice. Together, the Dashboard and the Review provide both a real-time monitoring tool and a structured interpretation of what market signals mean for buyers, developers, policymakers, and investors.
