ICVCM Invites Global Experts to Join Voluntary Carbon Market Assessment Panel

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has invited senior and young professionals worldwide to apply for its independent Expert Panel, with a new three-year term beginning in 2025. Panel members are compensated for their time and contribute technical expertise to Core Carbon Principles assessments and Continuous Improvement Work Programs.

The ICVCM is seeking experts with experience across carbon crediting methodology development, sustainable development measurement tools, and social and environmental safeguard systems including benefit-sharing at project and programme level. Senior professionals with over 10 years of experience and young professionals seeking to build their technical capabilities are both eligible. The ICVCM places particular emphasis on recruiting individuals from countries and communities where carbon projects are being implemented, ensuring that assessment expertise reflects the diversity of geographies where the voluntary carbon market operates.

Expert Panel members must commit a minimum of four days per month to assessment and assurance work, attend relevant meetings, and adhere to ICVCM codes of conduct on professional behaviour. Expert Panel Co-Chairs lead panel discussions and serve as the primary link between the Expert Panel and the Standards Oversight Committee; they must be available for at least eight days per month. Compensation is based on hours worked and seniority level, with guideline time expectations established for each role.

The Expert Panel's technical work feeds directly into the governing board's decisions on CCP-Eligible programs and CCP-Approved credit categories. This two-tick approval process determines which carbon credits may carry the CCP label — the signal of high integrity that buyers, including Indian corporates with Scope 3 commitments, rely on to identify quality credits in the voluntary market. The ICVCM has highlighted independence from conflict of interest as a central selection criterion, and has actively encouraged applications from outside the project development and credit rating sectors. The application period has now closed.

Key figure — 3-year maximum term — length of Expert Panel appointments beginning in 2025