OPIS Insights

Henry Kronk


November 11, 2025
Carbon, Environmental Commodities

Project REDD+ Struggles Amid Quality Push: Future of Voluntary Carbon Credits

Nearly two years after a major reckoning of forest conservation projects within the voluntary carbon market, REDD+ developers have managed...

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October 1, 2025
Carbon, Environmental Commodities

Quality Carves Up the Afforestation/Reforestation Market

Buyers’ evasion of reputation risk in recent years has divided the market for afforestation, reforestation and revegetation carbon credits into...

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October 31, 2024
Carbon, Environmental Commodities

ARR Issuances Continue to Fall and Show No Immediate Signs of Bouncing Back

While demand is high for credits of certain types of afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR) projects, issuances have declined steadily...

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September 9, 2024
Carbon, Environmental Commodities

Voluntary Carbon Market Faces Messy Integration with Article 6 of Paris Agreement

In an ideal world, both the voluntary carbon market and the signatories of the Paris Agreement would pull together toward...

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April 11, 2024
Carbon, Environmental Commodities

High Costs, Geopolitical Risks Impede Blue Carbon Removal Projects

Demand for voluntary blue carbon credits from companies seeking to fulfill net zero pledges has surged in recent years, but...

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March 15, 2024
Carbon, Environmental Commodities, Renewables

Voluntary Carbon Markets Stakeholders Play Hot Potato With Market Risk

With the integrity of carbon offsetting under fire, buyers are looking to lock down the forward delivery of high-quality credits...

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March 6, 2024
Carbon, Environmental Commodities

In Opaque REDD+ Markets, Identical Credits Can Fetch Diverse Prices

Buyers and sellers of voluntary carbon credits have, in recent months, begun to value offsets issued from the same projects...

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February 20, 2024
Renewables

Renewable Energy Certificates Supply Constraints Showing Some Signs of Easing

Many of the conditions that limited the supply of renewable energy certificates in 2023 could begin to ease in 2024,...

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June 27, 2023
Renewables

Historic Highs for PJM REC Prices Driven by Soaring Demand and Slow Queues

A tangle of factors pushed prices for renewable energy certificates serving the PJM Interconnection to historic highs in Q2 of...

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June 1, 2023
Carbon

REDD+ Project Hedges Against Drought and Weakening Carbon Markets

Despite criticisms of REDD+ projects and a decline in related carbon credit prices this year, offsets issued by the Kasigau...

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