Our impact

A track record you can verify.

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20+ years of climate-policy practice

Climate policy that reaches the real world.

Since 2003, we have connected independent research with advisory work. We help public institutions, businesses and civil society design climate policy and put it into practice.

Environmental integrity, scientific evidence and practical application guide our work, from market rules to project development.

Axel Michaelowa presenting on financing inclusive carbon projects at Building Bridges 2025
Building Bridges, 2025 · Research in conversation

From a policy question to practical use

Project

Make policy implementable

Our assignment supporting Ethiopia’s NDC update covered emissions pathways, adaptation targets and the systems needed to measure progress.

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Research

Make integrity practical

Our research on Paris-alignment in carbon crediting examines what alignment means, why it matters and how it can be implemented, drawing on literature and a joint CMM-WG and ICVCM workshop.

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Initiative

Build solutions together

Hydrogen for NetZero connects technology, finance and policy to support renewable and low-carbon hydrogen projects, with methodology development, market orientation and stakeholder exchange.

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Experience that keeps informing what comes next

Carbon markets, climate finance and research have evolved. Our commitment to integrity has remained.

More about Perspectives
  1. Independent climate policy

    Perspectives is founded by experts from the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, as carbon markets move from theory into practice.

  2. Methods put to work

    The UNFCCC approves AM21, a CDM methodology developed by Perspectives for reducing N₂O emissions in adipic acid plants.

  3. Climate action at programme scale

    Development of a NAMA design concept for energy efficiency in residential buildings in Mexico.

  4. A dedicated home for research

    Perspectives Climate Research gGmbH is established as a non-profit research organisation.

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