ICVCM Recruits Methodology Experts for New Three-Year Expert Panel Term

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is recruiting senior and young professional experts for its Expert Panel, with a new term of up to three years commencing in 2025 following the expiry of the current panel at end of 2024. The panel provides technical expertise on the Core Carbon Principles, Assessment Framework, and Continuous Improvement Work Programs.

The call targets recognised professionals across three areas: carbon accounting and methodology development, measurement methods for sustainable development impacts of carbon projects, and implementation and evaluation of social and environmental safeguard systems. Senior experts must have more than 10 years of relevant experience, with preference for individuals who have both designed and implemented carbon crediting program rules, methodologies, and standards. Young professionals from communities and countries where carbon projects are implemented are explicitly invited to apply, with a view to building their technical understanding and contributing to an inclusive carbon market.

Members are compensated based on hours worked and seniority, using guideline time expectations and time recording. Employers willing to provide expert support on an in-kind basis may do so subject to conflict-of-interest review. The ICVCM has stated that carbon crediting programs and project developer entities would be unlikely to meet its conflict-of-interest requirements, and encourages applications from experts not currently affiliated with such entities. Expert Panel Co-Chairs carry elevated responsibilities in managing the panel's work programme and linking the panel to the Standards Oversight Committee.

The Expert Panel plays a direct role in the ICVCM's regulatory-like assessment process, contributing to both internal assessments of carbon crediting programs and Multi-Stakeholder Working Group evaluations of credit categories. Panel expertise directly informs the Governing Board's formal decisions on CCP-Eligible programs and CCP-Approved credit categories — the two conditions required for carbon credits to carry the high-integrity CCP label. The application period has now closed.

Key figure — 3 years — duration of the new Expert Panel term commencing in 2025