Voluntary Carbon Market Insights & FAQs
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the voluntary carbon market – and more!
AlliedOffsets Products
What is AlliedOffsets Dashboard and how does it work?
AlliedOffsets Dashboard is a tool designed for analyzing trends and data in the voluntary carbon market. It provides access to a wide range of datasets, visualizations, and metrics that help users understand market dynamics, including pricing, project quality, and a diverse range of project specific insights. The dashboard integrates AlliedOffsets’ proprietary data, enabling users to explore and interact with ease.
Who can benefit from using AlliedOffsets Dashboard?
The dashboard is ideal for carbon market participants, including project developers, corporate buyers, policy analysts, researchers, and consultants. It is also valuable for small businesses or individuals looking to understand carbon offsets and removals or improve their sustainability strategies.
What features does the AlliedOffsets Dashboard offer?
Some of the features include:
- Access to project pricing and quality trends
- Normalized Quality Score analysis for projects
- Tools to compare project types, methodologies, and pricing over time
- Market liquidity insights
- Buyer lead generation tools and contact details
- Detailed policy and risk metrics on a country and project level
- Market forecasting for demand, supply and prices including sector and country specific details
Do I have to purchase the entire AlliedOffsets dashboard?
The short answer is no. We understand that different users have varying use cases and levels of data requirements. That’s why we offer a tiered and modular pricing structure, ensuring that you only pay for the level of access you need.
Explore our modular offerings here.
In addition to modular subscription access to our services, we also offer bespoke reporting, data and analysis. Speak to our team to learn more.
How does the AlliedOffsets Dashboard help with carbon market analysis?
AlliedOffsets voluntary carbon market dashboard simplifies complex carbon market data, making it more accessible and actionable. Users can assess trends, identify high-quality, low-priced projects, and analyze relationships between price, quality, and liquidity. It supports data-driven decision-making for all carbon market stakeholders.
How does AlliedOffsets fit into the wider voluntary carbon market?
Can I try AlliedOffsets Dashboard and API for free before purchasing?
Yes! AlliedOffsets offers trials to test out the features and data before committing to a subscription. Speak to our team to set up your free trial.
What makes AlliedOffsets Dashboard different from other carbon market tools?
The dashboard stands out for its emphasis on data transparency and quality. In fact, AlliedOffsets has the largest database of the voluntary carbon market covering 99% of retirement activity, 30+ registries and 16,000+ buyers.
AlliedOffsets is also the only data provider for the market that is truly independent and not influenced by external stakeholders, investors or opinions. We do not provide any opinions on what a good project is, but rather give users the tools to make their own decisions based on their definition of quality. These capabilities, coupled with a user-friendly interface, differentiate it from competitors
Is AlliedOffsets Dashboard suitable for small businesses or individuals?
Yes, the dashboard is designed to accommodate various user needs, including small businesses and individuals. We offer tiered and modular access options to our dashboard to accommodate smaller companies and team budgets.
How do I access AlliedOffsets dashboard?
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool. It allows users to explore and analyze AlliedOffsets data through custom queries, visualizations, and dashboards. Access is provided as a part of the AlliedOffsets subscription.
How often is AlliedOffsets dashboard updated?
The data is updated daily to ensure users have access to the latest market insights.
Can I download data from AlliedOffsets for offline use?
Yes, users can export data in various formats, including CSV, Excel and PNG, for offline use or integration into other tools.*
*Data download capabilities are limited to certain subscription levels.
Does AlliedOffsets offer product onboarding and support?
Yes, AlliedOffsets provides personalized company onboarding, technical onboarding and support as well as user guides to help subscribers get the most out of their subscription. These resources cover navigation, creating queries, and building custom dashboards.
What are AlliedOffsets sources of pricing information?
We collect our pricing information from online sources, partnerships with brokers and traders, and data sharing agreements with a large number of market participants. We receive over 1,000 price points a week which we use to update our pricing model.
Do you disclose the accuracy or margin of error in your price estimations?
Yes, we include a confidence score in our database to demonstrate our confidence in our pricing. This confidence score is designed to demonstrate the statistical confidence of our price estimates and consists of 12 component metrics. c. 85% of our prices for active projects are priced with a confidence of ‘High’ or ‘Medium’, which suggest we are confident in this price.
Do you provide historical data on pricing trends?
Yes. We have historical pricing data at the credit/ vintage, methodology and sector level.
Explore some of our freely available carbon pricing data here.
