Policy
Three signals from the last week of August 2026
CBAM verification guidance, Japan's carbon market design and an EU ETS price above €80 all point the same way for procurement teams.
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Research on financing emissions reductions across the value chain.
Carbon3 publishes sector outlooks, articles and field notes on insetting, Scope 3 and the capital that funds them.
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Transition finance
Six opportunities for sustainable finance, and the gap beneath them
WRI's 2026 list is right about the institutional constraints.
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Book and claim for maritime decarbonization: momentum and fragmentation
The model is gaining traction with buyers and standards bodies, but inconsistent frameworks push a heavy due-diligence burden onto procurement teams.
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Global climate finance has crossed $2 trillion, but growth is slowing
Annual flows passed $2 trillion, while the growth rate fell from 30 percent in 2021 to an estimated 2 to 3 percent in 2025.
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CBAM is an investment signal for Korean steel's customers
$7.7bn of Korean exports will sit under CBAM from 2028.
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The Europe Outlook 2026
Carbon costs at the EU border become a commercial reality.
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Around 115 clean-energy technologies are commercially ready and undeployed
The IEA counts nearly 80 that have been ready for more than five years.
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Organic waste could supply a fifth of today's natural gas demand
More than 70 percent of the potential resource sits in emerging and developing economies, which links waste management to local energy resilience.
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The Africa Outlook 2026
Critical minerals, exceptional solar potential and some of the lowest-cost real reductions in the world.
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The IMO has a decision date. Waiting still has a cost.
MEPC resumes on 4 December 2026.
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The Middle East Outlook 2026
The Gulf is rebuilding part of its export model around hydrogen and ammonia.
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The North America Outlook 2026
Scope 3 finance continued through federal policy shifts for structural reasons.
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The Carbon3 Newsletter
Weekly analysis of industrial decarbonization and insetting across Scope 1 to 3, from the Carbon3 team.