ICVCM Seeks Experts for Carbon Market Panel Renewal
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is recruiting new members for its independent Expert Panel for the 2025 to 2028 term, following the expiry of the first cohort's three-year tenure in December 2024. The council is seeking professionals with expertise in carbon accounting, sustainable development measurement, and social and environmental safeguards.
The Expert Panel provides technical expertise to the Integrity Council, making recommendations for approval by the Governing Board on carbon crediting programs and methodologies. The current panel, drawn from diverse technical and geographic backgrounds, contributed to the development of the Core Carbon Principles, launched in March 2023, and the Assessment Framework, published in July 2023, as well as ongoing methodology assessments. Panel Co-Chairs Pedro Martins Barata and Daniel Ortega Pacheco expressed gratitude to outgoing members while calling for fresh perspectives alongside continuity.
The Integrity Council stated a commitment to selecting a diverse mix of experts across geographies and expertise areas, with a particular emphasis on candidates from the Global South. The council encouraged both existing members to reapply and new professionals to apply, viewing the balance of continuity and fresh insight as essential. Diversity of expertise — spanning carbon project development, methodology design, and rights-based safeguards — is viewed as critical to comprehensive integrity assessments.
Applications for the Expert Panel have now closed and submissions are under review. The new panel will serve a term of up to three years beginning in 2025, taking on responsibility for the next phase of Assessment Framework revisions and the Continuous Improvement Work Programmes. The Integrity Council noted that incoming members would join at a significant moment, with the first CCP-labelled credits now in the market and growing demand from buyers for high-integrity carbon credits.
Key figure — Three-year Expert Panel term: 2025 to 2028
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