COP30 to Decide Forestry Rules for UN Operated Carbon Market

It’s official. The international community has agreed to establish an international carbon credit market, but now, it must focus on implementation. Starting from today, November 10, and running through until Friday, November 21, 2025, global leaders will gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 talks, dubbed by COP30 President-Designate André Corrêa do Lago as the ‘COP of implementation and adaptation’ and the ‘COP of truth’.

“With the framework for Article 6 carbon markets mostly settled at COP29 in Baku, COP30 shifts focus to implementation,” according to Gilbert + Tobin, a leading legal firm covering the climate talks. “Against this backdrop, there are several mandated agenda items at COP30 in relation to Article 6 relating to environmental integrity and reporting under Article 6.2, standards and methodologies under the Article 6.4 carbon crediting mechanism (known as the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM)), funding for the administration of the PACM, and the transition away from the CDM established under the Kyoto Protocol.”

“Since COP29, the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body has been working to approve the first carbon credit methodologies, with initial project types potentially cleared by mid-2025. The Supervisory Body has also been working on standards for safeguards, including baselines, additionality, and preventing the reversal of carbon removals,” they said. Starting with the formal approval of the first methodology for carbon crediting under Article 6.4, for Landfill Gas, Wood Central understands that the body will now establish the methodologies for agriculture, industry, renewable energy, and global forestry during COP30 talks.