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Report highlights
Where carbon credit buyers are taking their portfolios
Between 2019 and 2025, named carbon credit buyers more than doubled the share of their retirements going to improved forest management, cookstoves, and industrial efficiency projects, from 17% to 41%. You can explore the shift in 18 different sectors.
How the buying calendar has changed
Companies are retiring more often and in smaller amounts, and buyers made 40% of their 2025 retirements in the first quarter, against 11% in 2019. We set out what this means for when to start your procurements.
What buyers ask for in an RFP, and what comes back
Across over 40 RFPs on the Abatable platform, suppliers put forward IFM or ARR credits in 43% of their offers, against 13% of what named buyers retired in 2025. We compare offers with retirements for key sectors, and show how buyers can sharpen their briefs.
Authors
Carbon credit retirements in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) have held at around 180mn tonnes a year since 2021. Underneath that steady total, companies have changed what they retire, when they retire it, and how they go to market for new supply.
Buyer signals is Abatable’s new interactive report, allowing you to explore those shifts. It draws on seven years of retirement data from more than 2,500 named buyers across 18 sectors, plus over 40 buyer RFPs and nearly 4,000 priced offers from the Abatable platform. You can explore and manipulate every chart by sector and other metrics, compare your approach with your peers’, and learn five practical moves for your next carbon credit procurement.
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