Trellis: Should you insure your carbon credits? Lessons from the UK

Trellis explores carbon insurance growth in the UK, with Chris Slater providing insight on market dynamics and US prospects.

Carbon credit insurance is moving from specialist corner to serious market tool. Interviewed by Trellis, Oka CEO Chris Slater helps explain why.

The article looks at how the UK has become an early centre of gravity for carbon insurance, and why buyers are starting to treat cover as more than a back-end safeguard. Chris’s contribution cuts to two points. First, insurance can act as a quality signal in a market where buyers are still trying to separate genuine diligence from wishful thinking. Second, while the US is harder to navigate from a regulatory and insurance-innovation perspective, its eventual market could be far larger than today’s UK and European one.

Read the full article in Trellis (formerly GreenBiz).

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Published
October 28, 2024