Article 6 Guidance Must Start With the Rules
A review of the Article 6 Senior Officials' Handbook published by the CVF-V20 Presidency and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative.
The new Article 6 Senior Officials' Handbook gives host governments sound governance advice, but it gets several core Article 6 rules wrong and leaves out others that officials cannot work without. A revised edition should be built on the rules agreed by Parties, not on the voluntary carbon market's frameworks.
The 112-page handbook was published on 14 October 2026 by the Climate Vulnerable Forum and V20 (CVF-V20) Presidency with the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI). It is aimed at senior officials in the countries most exposed to climate change, many of which are setting up their Article 6 systems now. That is why accuracy matters: guidance like this shapes the first authorisations a country issues.
The Article 6 Network reviewed every module against the decisions of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (the CMA), including the COP29 and COP30 outcomes. We found:...
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