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Collaboration

The Carbon Rating Agency and IDEACarbon (our parent) believe that establishing rigorous, comparable standards in the carbon markets is of paramount importance if the international community is to successfully tackle climate change. We recognize that our work on ratings will only achieve its full potential if we work in close partnership with like-minded organizations in both the public and private sectors.

The Carbon Rating Agency has therefore been designed as a collaborative initiative and we have created a series of programmes designed to strengthen our work – and the global carbon markets – through partnership. These partnerships will encompass both academic alliances that will enable us to continually enhance the rigour of our work, as well as outreach and marketing partnerships that will accelerate the adoption of ratings and other transparent standards and benchmarks.

We have already developed a number of partnerships with key actors in the carbon markets, and continue to seek further partners in the areas listed below.  We are also open to considering collaboration in areas not listed.  If you would like to explore partnership with the Carbon Ratings Agency please contact us at partnership@carbonratingsagency.com.

  • Collaboration on the development of analylitical tools and ratings methodology
  • Licence or market our products in your country or territory
  • Licence our technologies amd methodologies for application in related markets
  • Designated National Authorities partnership programme
  • Leading Corporations Offset Rating Programme
  • Insurance companies, financial organizations and exchanges
1. Collaboration on the development of analytical tools and ratings methodologies
The Carbon Rating Agency works with academics, market professionals, independent research and risk analysists, and many other contributors that wish to help develop further our methods and processes for ratings and risk analysis of greenhouse gas markets.  We are open to collaboration on a commercial basis depending on the size and scope of the work or development plan. We are also open to developing and contributing to workshops and training programmes in partnership with industry bodies with an interest in the carbon markets.

2. Licence or market our products in your country or territory
We welcome inquiries from organizations who would like to license our products or processes to market in their countries or territories.  Licensing can be delivered through partnership, colloboration, or joint venture structures.

3. Designated National Authorities partnership programme
The Carbon Ratings Agency works with DNAs to help them develop strategies for analysing and accelerating project pipelines.  Our sophisticated approach to risk assessment and delivery analysis enables DNAs to develop an enhanced understanding of opportunities and risks in their project pipelines.

4. Leading Corporations Offset Rating Programme
The Carbon Ratings Agency recognizes that leading corporations are increasingly participating in the voluntary carbon markets as a way of offsetting their own and their customers’ emissions.  Our approach to carbon ratings enables corporations to overcome the lack of transparency in the voluntary market by delivering an independent performance assessment. This enables corporations to demonstrate the highest possible levels of transparency and robustness to  their  stakeholders. We are also open to partnership with consultancies and carbon offset service providers.

5. Insurance companies, financial organizations and exchanges
The Carbon Ratings Agency works with insurance companies and funds to create benchmarks that deliver robust calculations of the Net Asset Value of carbon assets and enable the development of insurance services for the CDM and voluntary markets.  We believe that it is important for the financial community to begin setting standards of measurements to help investment flow with more confidence.  This is a real challenge given the myriad risks and uncertainties inherent in today's carbon markets.   Fund managers currently face significant challenges in reporting the NAV of Greenhouse Gas assets as do accounting and regulatory bodies.  Equally, banks issuing structured products based on carbon collateral need to adopt and set transparent standards which enable confidence to to be built in these instruments and widen the choice for institutional investors to participate in this new alternative asset class.