ExeterOne metric now scores forests and geological storage.
Until now buyers and insurers had only labels like permanent versus nonpermanent.
Carbon at Risk borrows finance’s Value at Risk, measuring how far removal could fall short of what was contracted.
Researchers say insurers can now underwrite reversal risk, a product absent from carbon removal markets.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- explains the Carbon at Risk metric, replacing permanent-vs-nonpermanent labels with one quantitative scale across all removal types
Sources: Phys.org