Ratings for Transparency & Liquidity

The Carbon Rating Agency's independent ratings and product suite assist carbon
market participants in increasing transparency and improving risk management.

CRA Ratings Suite

CRA applies custom risk assessment tools, based on a combination of detailed evaluation, transparent risk analysis, and the input from an expert independent rating committee.

Market Initiated Ratings

Market Initiated Ratings (MIRI) are unsolicited ratings undertaken by the CRA as a public service to the market in order to enhance market transparency.

Accuracy

Accuracy

Independence

Independence

Transparency

Transparency

 

Welcome

The Carbon Rating Agency (CRA) is an IDEACarbon company committed to establishing rigorous, comparable standards that will enable the global carbon markets to attract the levels of finance necessary for preventing climate change.

CRA believes that the case for serious involvement by private capital in the carbon market is compelling: it offers an opportunity to achieve healthy investment grade returns in a market un-correlated to stocks and bonds. Our ratings are designed to help these markets develop by reducing regulatory uncertainty, improving market standards and enhancing risk analysis and transparency.

CRA's ratings provide a rigorous assessment of the likelihood of a project or portfolio delivering its stated emissions reductions in the stated time period. In addition, each rating evaluates the economic and social development benefits that the project does, or does not bring.

Improved transparency and better risk management – including ratings – are an integral part of the process to turn carbon into a new asset class. At present, each emission reduction project is unique and has its own risk profile. Carbon ratings will help to standardise carbon as a commodity and create a new asset class. Rated projects will no longer be unique but comparable to other projects with the same rating.

We hope our ratings will play an integral part in the evolution of carbon markets.

Our work is highly collaborative. If you would like to join us in strengthening the transparency of the global carbon markets, please contact us.

 

Latest News

  1. Costa Rica climate change negotiator and former Carbon Rating Agency Vice Chair Christiana Figueres appointed as Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC

    12:00 18 May 2010

  2. The Carbon Rating Agency

    12:00 22 April 2010

  3. ICRA Online seals strategic alliance with IDEAcarbon in India

    08:00 6 April 2010

  4. IDFC and IDEAcarbon enter into alliance to enhance carbon market mechanisms in India

    12:00 6 April 2010

  5. IDEACarbon announces the appointment of key carbon market participant Edwin Aalders to its management team

    12:00 2 November 2009

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