Twenty years in the room.
From the first carbon credit to the Paris rulebook: a short history of Perspectives.
Founded in Freiburg, before carbon had a market.
Climate-policy experts from the Hamburg Institute of International Economics set up Perspectives just as the Kyoto mechanisms were taking shape. The bet: rigorous research would be the scarcest commodity in climate policy.
The UNFCCC approves our first CDM methodology.
AM0021, on N₂O abatement, becomes one of the earliest approved Clean Development Mechanism methodologies. Perspectives is in the engine room of the first global carbon market.
Article 6 is born. So is our next mandate.
The Paris Agreement replaces top-down targets with nationally determined contributions, and its Article 6 opens a new era of cooperative approaches. We help write the rules we would later help implement.
From negotiation to implementation.
COP26 finalises the Article 6 rulebook. Demand explodes for exactly what we do: turning treaty text into national frameworks, registries and bankable cooperative approaches.
Research that informs. Advisory that delivers.
Perspectives Climate Research gGmbH and Perspectives Climate Group GmbH formalise the separation that keeps our evidence independent, with a team of 50+ experts spanning 15+ nationalities.
COP31 is ahead. We are already in the room.
650+ assignments, 260+ publications, 40+ countries. The decisive decade is half over; the work is accelerating.