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Assess the integrity of more than 4,000 global carbon credit projects with investor-grade ratings.1 Deliver measurable impact with our independent assessments, grounded in rigor, granularity and geospatial project intelligence.
Reduce risk with an independent assessment of carbon credit quality and an intuitive, transparent AAA to CCC rating. Perform project-specific due diligence by diving deep into the analysis and evidence, supported by an in-depth, transparent methodology and over two decades of experience in carbon-market analysis.2
Evaluate the investment and reputational risks associated with carbon projects based on a holistic assessment of six key criteria, informed by cutting-edge geospatial analytics and featuring the market’s only detailed appraisal of legal and ethical risks.
Assess the potential value generated by carbon projects, with a laser focus on integrity and in-depth evaluations of individual projects using a rules-based, project-specific framework that includes the flexibility to weight ratings to match your strategic priorities.
Enhance credibility and find your strategic edge by comparing your carbon credit projects with peers. Benchmark a project’s integrity across the whole market and within its project type to assess strengths and align with market standards.
Our Carbon Project Ratings represent in-depth and consistent assessments of individual projects using rules-based, project-type specific frameworks. Our ratings feature transparent scoring of six key criteria, including the market’s only in-depth assessment of legal and ethical risk.
Each carbon project receives an intuitive composite rating from AAA to CCC that leverages investment-quality data and cutting-edge geospatial analytics. Our ratings combine the detailed carbon credit integrity assessment system developed since 2021 by Trove Research with MSCI’s decades of experience in producing investment-grade sustainability research and ratings.
Companies, investors, traders and developers around the world use MSCI’s Carbon Project Ratings to quickly identify and understand risk and drive impact.
Search and compare carbon credit integrity across more than 4,000 projects.3
Assess integrity holistically across six essential criteria — additionality, quantification, permanence, co-benefits, legal and ethical risks (including financial crime, corruption, fraud and sanctions), and delivery risk.
Ratings cover both registered and pre-registration projects, across all major project types, including fast-growing sectors such as jurisdictional REDD+ and engineered carbon removal solutions.
Our carbon project ratings leverage the best of advanced data science, geospatial analytics, and technological-economic modeling to provide clear and actionable insights. We apply institutional-standard data quality and verification standards to raise the integrity bar.
Our proprietary methodologies are underpinned by scientific principles and industry frameworks, grounded in granularity, and incorporate advanced, AI-powered calculation tools for precision and reliability. We provide transparency with detailed documentation of our methodologies and client access to our analysts.
Our composite ratings consider not only the integrity of a project’s environmental impact but also its co-benefits, delivery risks, and legal and ethical characteristics. Detailed country policy and corresponding adjustment risk analysis is also available on our platform.
Our platform allows subscribers to customize the weightings of different factors to quickly identify projects that best meet their preferences.
Assess project-level integrity with transparent integrity scoring based on more than 1 million datapoints, 20,000 project documents, and more than 3,000 geospatial boundaries.
Analyze deforestation trends, measure carbon stock, and understand biodiversity impacts and benefits based on the geography of project areas with our suite of geospatial tools.
We are making our Carbon Project Ratings publicly available for the rest of 2024. See how we are raising the bar on carbon project ratings and enhancing clarity in the carbon credit market. To see more of the analysis and findings behind the ratings, get in touch.
Our Carbon Project Ratings Methodology describes in detail the framework and criteria we use to define carbon project integrity.
This report describes the methodology of the MSCI Carbon Project Ratings and finds that of the more than 4,000 projects assessed, fewer than 10% are rated in the AAA-A band. There are, however, some encouraging signs of a trend to increasing integrity.
Our analysis of the emissions performance of over 4,000 global companies and the link with the use of carbon credits found that companies that use material quantities of carbon credits are, on average, decarbonizing at twice the rate of companies that do not use them at all.
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has announced the first set of projects that qualify for its Core Carbon Principles, marking a major milestone for the voluntary carbon market and one that could pave the way for a bifurcated market.
Planting forests for carbon (and biodiversity) has become a new trend in the investment world, making Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) one of the fastest growing project types in the carbon credit market. Credit buyers or investors looking to stake their claim in the world of forest carbon, however, will need to look out for more than just affordable land.
Stay informed about the complex and rapidly changing carbon markets with the latest research, blogs, and webinars from MSCI Carbon Markets.