Abatable has won the Best Market Innovation award in Environmental Finance’s Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings 2025. Valerio Magliulo reflects on the achievement and how it represents the evolution of Abatable and our offering to the market.
Receiving Environmental Finance’s Best Market Innovation award for 2025 is both humbling and energising. It validates Abatable’s years of work to bring transparency and intelligence to carbon markets but, more importantly, it signals that the industry recognises the importance of effective tools to navigate this critical space.
Innovation is at the heart of our approach to enabling climate action through carbon markets. We received this award for our procurement and intelligence platform – built in lockstep with myriad carbon credit buyers, project developers and investors to facilitate a more transparent, better-functioning VCM.
This recognition couldn’t come at a more pivotal moment. As we witness climate impacts intensifying worldwide and global emissions continuing their upward trajectory, the gap between climate ambition and action has never been more critical to close. Recent reports show that while corporate climate commitments remain strong – in the face of governmental push-back in some geographies – progress toward meeting them is falling behind schedule across sectors.
The reality is stark yet straightforward: companies need more options to contribute to global climate action while the technology to enable comprehensive internal decarbonisation continues to develop. The transition to net zero isn’t just about electrifying operations or switching to renewable energy – though these remain essential. It’s about recognising that meaningful climate action requires multiple pathways and every tool in the toolkit. The voluntary carbon market is one such powerful tool that exists today that’s essential in channelling private capital toward urgent climate solutions.
Opaque waters
Yet, the VCM’s complexity – with over 13,000 projects across diverse geographies and methodologies – has created barriers that prevent many well-intentioned companies from participating effectively.
Too often, we’ve seen organisations either avoid the market entirely due to complexity concerns, or engage hastily only to encounter sub-optimal outcomes that undermine both climate impact and corporate reputation.
An evolution
We’ve been working with leading carbon credit buyers for years, building, refining and proving our platform to give the market the tools needed to effectively use the VCM to support meaningful climate action. Now, with recognition from the industry, we’re unveiling its next evolution.
Our refreshed, integrated solutions offering for carbon credit buyers builds on our experience and is designed to further democratise high-quality carbon market engagement. We’ve codified our years of experience supporting over 200 companies and transacting 55 million tonnes of credits into a framework that guides organisations through every stage of their carbon credit journey.
From initial strategy formulation through to impact reporting, each step of our evolved offering is designed to help companies navigate the market’s complexity while maximising climate outcomes. Our tiered due diligence processes ensure that buyers can assess projects with confidence, whether they’re making their first carbon credit purchase or managing sophisticated multi-million tonne portfolios. Meanwhile, our integrated monitoring and reporting tools provide the transparency needed to communicate impact credibly to stakeholders.
The key insight driving this evolution is that effective VCM engagement is about building systems that make rigorous, impactful decision-making accessible and scalable. Companies shouldn’t have to choose between speed and quality, or between cost-effectiveness and climate integrity. Our buyer solutions eliminate these false trade-offs by providing the infrastructure, intelligence, and expertise needed to identify, evaluate, and purchase high-quality credits efficiently.
Accelerating on-the-ground climate action
What excites me most about this next chapter is its potential to accelerate collective climate action. Every company that can engage with the VCM more effectively means more capital flowing into forest conservation, more capital flowing into solutions with powerful community co-benefits, and more capital flowing into the breakthrough technologies we need, like carbon capture and storage. These projects don’t just deliver carbon reductions – they create jobs, protect biodiversity, and build climate resilience in communities that need it most.
The voluntary carbon market has enormous potential to channel finance where it’s desperately needed, but only if we make it work better for everyone. That means project developers who can access reliable, long-term funding for their crucial work. It means buyers who can participate with confidence, knowing their investments deliver real climate impact. And ultimately, it means a planet that benefits from accelerated climate action at the scale and speed our situation demands.
This award also reflects our clients’ journeys and successes with us, and gives us renewed energy for the journey ahead. As climate impacts intensify and the window for effective action narrows, we’re committed with our next evolution to ensuring that every company serious about climate action has the tools and expertise needed to make a meaningful difference. The technology exists, the projects are ready, and the capital is available. Our job is to connect them intelligently, transparently, and at scale.
The next chapter in carbon market innovation starts now, and we’re just getting started.
Read more and see the other Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings 2025 winners on the Environmental Finance website.
