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August 10, 2026Global Environmental ChangeOpen Access

ITMO regulations to ratchet up ambition

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AFAdrien FabreCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Implication

Policy analysis demonstrates structured regulatory mechanisms for international carbon credits, indicating that coalition-level oversight can align national pledges with Paris Agreement goals.

Key Points

  • To evaluate regulatory mechanisms for Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes that prevent the dilution of climate ambition and ensure alignment with Paris Agreement temperature goals.
  • Conceptual policy analysis examining the structural risks of unfettered carbon trading under the Paris Agreement framework.
  • Design of a phased governance model for a coalition of willing nations, moving from standardized metrics to joint, coalition-wide target assessments.
  • Unrestricted trading of mitigation outcomes risks disincentivizing domestic emission reductions in buyer countries while offering insufficient economic returns to seller countries.
  • Establishing coalition rules—including metric harmonization, disqualifying underperforming sellers, and collective target setting—prevents credit misuse and maintains emissions integrity.
  • Coupling an exclusive, tightly regulated carbon-trading coalition with expanded Just Energy Transition Partnerships provides a robust pathway for international decarbonization.

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Adrien Fabre (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aad1480f9074a5ddded77bbhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2026.103217
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