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Chloé Naomi Swickard

Chloé Naomi Swickard

Head of Carbon Markets & Policy

Climate and sustainability leader with 20+ years shaping carbon markets and Nature-Based Solutions globally. She has led the development of standards such as Verra's VCS, including Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ and VM0048, and has contributed to major initiatives such as ICVCM, CORSIA, IETA, and Article 6 to advance high-integrity carbon markets.

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Evening light over Glencorse Reservoir, Pentland Hills, Scotland
International policy

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

Article 6 is the international carbon market framework of the Paris Agreement, the mechanism that should, in theory, make forests financeable at scale. In practice, the rules governing removal activities have made this harder, not easier.

Scots pines leaning over a loch shore in evening light
Voluntary carbon market

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)

The ICVCM sets the global threshold standard for quality in the voluntary carbon market. Its Core Carbon Principles and CCP label determine which credits are credible, which methodologies are sound, and where the market needs to go further: REDD+, reforestation, permanence, leakage, and buffer pools.

Evening sky over apartment buildings framed by tall broadleaf trees
Corporate standards

Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

SBTi sets the bar for corporate climate ambition: which emissions companies must cut, when, and by how much, and what role carbon credits, land use, and nature play in a credible net-zero claim. FLAG shapes demand from land-intensive companies; the Corporate Net-Zero Standard shapes the broader credit market.

The belian.earth app: a tree planting project plot in red with lines to its matched control plots, over the stocking index and satellite imagery, and a chart of the plot's stocking index against the weighted mean of its controls
Announcement28 October 2026

belian.earth vetted by Verra as a VM0047 Data Service Provider

Verra has vetted belian.earth as a Data Service Provider for VM0047, the methodology for tree planting projects. What that means for a developer, what we do differently, and what a view costs.

Tropical forest canopy. Permanence, the ICVCM Permanence Trust, and long-term durability in Nature-Based Solutions.
Opinion17 June 2026

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Forest?

Permanence has been a sticking point for Nature-Based Solutions since the Kyoto debates. The ICVCM Permanence Trust may finally unlock long-term durability. Even then, the deeper question of how nature gets financed will remain.

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