HAMERKOP Climate Impacts

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our UPDATED Carbon Projects Handbook! 👇 😵 We know navigating carbon projects and the carbon market can be daunting… Fortunately, we are here to help. We just updated our Carbon Projects Handbook so that it has the most practical, straightforward, and useful answers to all of your questions around: 🌏 What it takes to develop a carbon project 🌍 If selling carbon credits makes sense for your project 🌎 How much carbon certification costs 🌏 How to measure if your project is additional (and much, much, MUCH more) But here's the good news: the last version of this handbook was widely circulated and praised for its practicality. And we just updated everything. Nothing is generic or outdated; it is all tailored for real-world impact 💥 🌱 📘 Download the Handbook for FREE here: https://lnkd.in/gqsibKT And if you find it helpful please show your support by spreading the news so more people can benefit! Thank you, from the HAMERKOP Team Here's a sneak peek of what's on offer 👇 Clear step by step guides, case studies, certification standard insight (and more)

In November, two of our consultants traveled to Kazakhstan! 🇰🇿 They were there to help with the country’s first ever forest climate project 👇 🌳 As stated by Raimbek Batalov, the Chairman of the Forum of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan, “The project involves the restoration of 1,500 hectares of degraded land using local trees. The pilot will help reduce emissions and preserve local biodiversity, and during its implementation, about 1.2 million carbon credits will be received.” 🌱 Our consultants were there to perform a feasibility study, comparing the conditions in the project’s plating sites to other sites in the region. We spent a lot of time meeting with the project teams on the ground, as well as local stakeholders and the local conservation fund. The project aims to create a forest ecosystem in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, through the planting of over 3 million trees. This will lead to the removal of 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over 30 years, as well as co-benefits related to: agroforestry, ecotourism, and job creation ✅ 🌳 In the field, Guy Warren and Michael Tye witnessed a winter wonderland! ❄️ [references in the comments] 👉 Enjoy this kind of content? Follow our page and visit our website for more thought leadership related to the carbon market, climate finance, and sustainable development!

65 Carbon Certification Standards? What is going on in the carbon market?! 👇 Over a decade ago, World Bank analysts could not have been further from the truth when they predicted that by 2025-2030 regional carbon markets would merge into a single global market… As we highlighted with our infographics last year, the fragmentation of certification schemes shows an increasingly complex picture! 🌍 After reaching out to all of the certification schemes we could find, we have updated our database to feature the 65 Certification Schemes that we know are active in the world ✅ The high number of standards and rapid evolution of the space can be explained by several factors: 🌱 The need for specialised schemes within sectors: offering fewer and more focused tools, methodologies, with a range of simplifications 🌱 The need for culturally adapted schemes: not everyone works in English! Domestic or regional schemes can be rendered more accessible when available in the locally spoken languages (e.g., French, Spanish, Japanese, etc.) 🌱 The need for contextually adapted schemes: domestic or geographically specialised schemes can provide a range of default and locally relevant values that simplify the certification and verification processes 🌱 The need for less resource-intensive processes: as the leading schemes grow in complexity to accommodate their stakeholder needs for integrity, this creates rooms for less sophisticated and/or more innovative schemes We expect the number of schemes to keep growing over the years, followed by a consolidation of the competition with the weakest throwing in the towel. This process has already begun… We are currently updating all of our infographics to share the current state of certification standards, so please share and follow along for more updates soon! And feel free to download this image for a closer look 🔍 (we made it HD, so you will be able to zoom in) 👉 Enjoy this kind of content? Follow our page and visit our website for more thought leadership related to the carbon market, climate finance, and sustainable development!

[texte en français ci-dessous] If you remember, the HAMERKOP team traveled to both Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau this year 👇 Now, our work is informing key recommendations for efficient and sustainable forest and mangrove carbon projects 🌳 🇲🇬 Here’s our post about traveling to Madagascar / Notre article sur Madagascar: https://lnkd.in/eWhhEBtg 🇬🇼 And here’s our post about working in Guinea-Bissau / Notre article sur la Guinée-Bissau: https://lnkd.in/eYtMmi3e Now, the Fonds français pour l'environnement mondial (FFEM) has released a teaser for a larger report, which should be published this month. HAMERKOP aided FFEM to identify good practices and define key recommendations 👉 These 8 recommendations pave the way for more efficient and sustainable carbon projects: 🌱 Putting carbon finance projects at the service of the SDGs 🌱 Adopt inclusive governance for project preparation and management 🌱 Develop projects in experienced host countries 🌱 Conduct comprehensive feasibility studies in advance 🌱 Rely on prudent and resilient financial models 🌱 Defining a fair benefit-sharing mechanism 🌱 Strengthen the skills of project teams 🌱 Consolidating the monitoring and evaluation system Great report, FFEM! It’s a pleasure working with you. Stay tuned for the larger report 👀 — Dans le cadre de sa démarche de capitalisation, le Fonds français pour l'environnement mondial (FFEM) a collaboré avec le cabinet HAMERKOP pour analyser des projets passés de finance carbone qu’il a soutenus financièrement. Cette analyse vise à dégager des recommandations essentielles pour orienter de futurs projets de finance carbone durable. Vous vous en souvenez peut-être: cette année, l’équipe d’HAMERKOP s’est rendue à Madagascar et en Guinée-Bissau 👇 Ce travail contribue désormais à éclairer des recommandations pour concevoir des projets carbone plus efficaces et durables dans les forêts terrestres et les mangroves 🌳 👉 Ces 8 recommandations ouvrent la voie à des projets carbone mieux adaptés aux enjeux environnementaux et sociaux: 🌱 Mettre les projets de finance carbone au service des ODD 🌱 Adopter une gouvernance inclusive pour la préparation et la gestion des projets 🌱 Développer des projets dans des pays hôtes expérimentés 🌱 Effectuer au préalable des études de faisabilité exhaustives 🌱 S’appuyer sur des modèles financiers prudents et résilients 🌱 Définir un mécanisme équitable de partage des bénéfices 🌱 Renforcer les compétences des équipes projet 🌱 Consolider le dispositif suivi-évaluation Merci au FFEM pour cette collaboration enrichissante. Le rapport complet sera bientôt disponible — restez à l’écoute! 👉 Enjoy this kind of content? Follow our page and visit our website for more thought leadership related to climate finance and sustainable development!

Singapore is establishing itself as THE regional carbon trading hub in Southeast Asia through numerous initiatives 👇 🇸🇬 Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) is paving the way for a thriving carbon market. To do so, it is offering a wide range of support for carbon services and solutions companies. And it's working... In the country, there are already over 120 firms already operating across the carbon management value chain. ✅ This makes sense, as Singapore has established an ambitious carbon tax and has introduced phased mandatory sustainability reporting based on recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. This being said, companies will increasingly need to turn to experts to help them understand their emissions and to develop reduction strategies.  💡 At this point in the marketplace, the EDB is also fostering innovation, collaboration, and investment 👇 Singapore has already established a rapidly growing “ecosystem of innovation platforms and partners across climate funds, accelerator programmes, and startups.” Just last year, Singapore launched: the Sustaintech Xcelerator 2023, Biodiversity Accelerator+ and the Temasek Liveability Challenge The EDB also supported the launch of the Asia Centre of Carbon Excellence, a collaborative hub for experts in carbon project development, policy, and capacity-building. As you can see, Singapore is setting a global example for a thriving carbon marketplace 🌱 How does HAMERKOP fit in? 👇 HAMERKOP now has an office in Singapore and we are uniquely positioned to provide expertise in carbon finance, technical due diligence and project development, helping businesses around the world navigate the evolving carbon market landscape 🌏 Don’t hesitate to get in touch! 🇸🇬 Be sure to check out our recent posts for more insight on the carbon marketplace in Singapore! 👉 Enjoy this kind of content? Follow our page and visit our website for more thought leadership related to the carbon market, climate finance, and sustainable development! [Sources in the comments]

Last month, HAMERKOP traveled to the field in Cameroon! 🇨🇲 Solène Kechavarzi and Christophe Boyer, MSc travelled to Douala, the second largest city in the country, to visit the Wouri Estuary. The work was for the CAMERR Project, a mangrove restoration project developed by Planète Urgence, a French NGO engaged in the protection of biodiversity and the environment. We worked with local teams from the Cameroonian NGOs Cameroun Ecologie (CAM-ECO), Watershed Task Group (WTG) and the Cameroon Wildlife Conservation Society (CWCS). Here’s some more specifics of this exciting field visit: 👇 🌱 We started off with a day of training on the specifics of the forest inventory (which part of the mangrove we were going to sample, how to take the measurements, attributing the roles, dividing the teams). 📍 We then spent 8 days in the mangrove doing the inventory with the local teams. Before this, our GIS specialist, Mikael Minten, had identified degraded and intact areas and then established random points in these areas for us to visit. The team in the field then created transect lines from these points and got to work collecting data. (The inventory was completed a few weeks after we left, at the end of October) Here’s what the team learned from the inventory: ❗️ Large portions of the Mangrove forests in the Wouri estuary are in a degraded state due to the overexploitation of forest resources ❗️ This is compounded by the spread of invasive species such as Pandanus candelabrum and Nypa fruticans, which colonise areas previously covered with mangrove forests ❗️ Compared to mangroves which hold vast stores of carbon and are fundamental to the structure and integrity of the ecosystem, invasive species are carbon-poor and do not support the flora and fauna adapted to this ecosystem ✅ Understanding the state of the ecosystem and its carbon sequestration abilities is vital for effective restoration projects. This will allow us to determine the baseline scenario and the project scenario – thereby enabling us to determine the impact the project will have on carbon sequestration capacity. Well done to Solène and Christophe for a successful trip to the field! Here are some other highlights from the trip: 🥾 LOTS of mud 🚤 One stuck boat 🚐 One smoking, busted tyre… 🌊 many, many, amazing mangroves All part of a successful trip to the field 😉 👉 Enjoy this kind of content? Follow our page and visit our website for more thought leadership related to the carbon market, climate finance, and sustainable development!

This Wednesday, our very own Guy Warren will be speaking at a Sustainable Forestry Symposium in Edinburgh! 👇 The event is titled “Driving the Future Evolution of ESG: Adopt, Adapt, and Advance — An Action-Focused Symposium on Sustainable Forestry.” Its main goal is to serve as a collective call to action and position Scotland as a leader in sustainable forestry. 📍 More specifically, Guy will be speaking on Day 1 of the event, at offices of Greenbank Investments, in Edinburgh 🕚 He will be part of Panel 2 from 11:15 - 12 🌳 The Panel will focus on:  Scaling Nature-Based Climate Solutions Across Borders: Investment Mechanisms for Impact, Challenges, and Opportunities 🌳 Key Question: How can investment mechanisms be leveraged to scale nature-based climate solutions (NBCS) internationally, addressing both global and local challenges and opportunities, integrating local community insights and regional experiences, and identifying key opportunities and necessary mindset changes to capitalise on them? Chair: Dr Helen McKay Chief Forester for Scotland Panel Speakers: Olli Haltia Partner, Dasos Capital Oy Ltd (Finland) Simon Comer Investment Director, The Scottish National Investment Bank Bank Guy Warren Head of Advisory Services - Climate Change & Carbon Markets, HAMERKOP Climate Impacts Dr Pat Snowdon Head of Economics and Woodland Carbon Code Scottish Forestry Well done, Guy! We’re proud to be represented by such a qualified sustainable forestry expert 🌱 [Please note, this event is by invitation only. For further information/enquiries please visit https://lnkd.in/etEnEyUc]

Our founding director Olivier Levallois 🌏 was recently interviewed by a reporter for the The Straits Times in Singapore about the carbon standards approved at COP29 🌏👇 The article is titled “ST Explains: How will the centralised global carbon programme announced at COP29 affect Singapore?” Olivier was asked to comment on the new UN-managed carbon mechanism will affect the carbon landscape, especially in Singapore. Article 6.4, after 6 years of negotiation, has evolved to create the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (#PACM). So, what are the implications of this? 👇 Some highlights from the article: 👉 “[Olivier] said the approval of the UN carbon market rules is not an overnight game changer for the carbon services sector, although the UN credits will be more official and credible.” 👉 “When (the UN carbon market) is finally ready, we still need to see the market creating a larger source of demand for these credits. 👉 “It will take another few years before a Singapore company falling under the carbon tax has more choice and can take advantage of lower prices for credits,” he said. 🌏 Overall, the adoption of Art. 6.4 operationalising rules means that credits used under the Singaporean carbon system could be issued by the UN instead of independent bodies (e.g. Verra's VCS or Gold Standard) and would carry a strong seal of credibility. This could also mean stimulating the carbon market in the region under a common set of rules, for which Singapore is getting ready to take advantage, as it is set to become the leading SEAsian regional trading hub 📍 📄 Read more in the article here: https://lnkd.in/gVbqp46Q Written by Shabana Begum D/O Nazeer and Audrey Tan What are your thoughts? Let us know! 🚀 Enjoy this kind of content? Follow our page and visit our website for more thought leadership related to the carbon market, climate finance, and sustainable development!

We’re thrilled to welcome another member to the team! 🎉 Welcome aboard, Solène Kechavarzi! Solène holds a master's degree in Biodiversity and Conservation from University College London (UCL). Her research has involved modeling species abundance and population trends, as well as using machine learning to predict the impact of climate change on natural systems. When it comes to carbon projects, Solène is passionate about fostering biodiversity and boosting community co-benefits. She will work on a variety of projects at HAMERKOP, from nature-based solutions (#NbS) to cookstoves projects. We asked Solène a few questions to get to know her better!👇 Here’s what she said: 🌍 What led you to HAMERKOP and what kind of work are you most excited about? I was drawn to HAMERKOP because of the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge I’ve developed through my studies and research to meaningful, large-scale climate change solutions. I’m particularly excited to collaborate with the HAMERKOP team and learn from their expertise. The chance to contribute to carbon finance initiatives that integrate both biodiversity and community development goals is something I’m really passionate about. 🌏 Why do you think this work is important? Many projects and initiatives are on the verge of making a significant impact, and carbon finance can be the catalyst that helps them reach their full potential. By providing the necessary funding, carbon finance can support projects that not only reduce emissions but also create positive, lasting change for communities. 🌎 What’s an interesting fact about yourself? I’m originally from France and I used to play field hockey – I even participated in the national championship, playing for my regional team! 🤝 We’re thrilled to have Solène on the team full-time after a successful internship! 🚀 Follow our page and visit our website for thought leadership related to the carbon market, climate finance, and sustainable development!

HAMERKOP is thrilled to announce the launch of our Singapore office! 🇸🇬 🥳 With our founding director Olivier Levallois 🌏 on the ground in Singapore, we decided to expand our presence in Southeast Asia’s growing carbon market. We aim to work closely with market participants in Singapore and Southeast Asia and match the value we have been delivering to the European carbon market ecosystem 🌏 We have already been involved with the French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (FCCS), presenting on panels about the impact of the Carbon Tax on Businesses – stay tuned for more events in the future! HAMERKOP is uniquely positioned to provide expertise in carbon finance, technical due diligence and project development, helping businesses around the world navigate the evolving carbon market landscape 🌱 We have also been publishing consistent thought leadership on the state of the carbon market in Singapore, so follow us for more weekly updates. We’re looking forward to making lots new connections in Singapore and Southeast Asia, so don’t hesitate to reach out! 👉 Enjoy this kind of content? Follow our page and visit our website for more thought leadership related to the carbon market, climate finance, and sustainable development