Cascade Climate
Policy and Market Development
High-potential climate solutions can stall at the starting line, fragment rapidly, and remain reliant on a few early champions without the policy and economic cases required to build, maintain, and accelerate progress.
Moving from early, catalytic demonstration projects to enduring, policy-driven climate impact takes coordinated action from industry leaders who take early bets, policymakers and standards setters who cultivate the conditions for adoption, financial institutions that unlock capital, civil society that demands integrity, and more.
Cascade partners with these leading policy and market actors to build and shape the necessary foundations these solutions require — from advancing credible measurement and verification frameworks to putting forward incentive structures, business models, and policy frameworks that responsibly scale adoption.
MULTI-SECTOR POLICY AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT
Accounting and claims for short-lived and long-lived pollutants
Learn how Cascade is driving strong community alignment on the credibility of corporate and international credit claims, and read our latest report.
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Beyond GWP100
Read the report from our 2025 Climate Week NYC workshop on rigorous accounting and claims-making in a net-zero framework.
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Voluntary climate financing as a bridge
Voluntary climate finance is one of the few tools we can deploy at speed to test and de-risk climate technologies, while closing critical gaps to scale up.
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ERW in EU carbon removal policy
An in-depth look at how ERW fits within the EU Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming regulation and carbon market frameworks.
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Policy priorities for ERW
We need policies that support ERW research, lower costs, and build confidence in the durability of carbon removal.
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REFRIGERANT MANAGEMENT POLICY AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT
Financing the Recovery Economy
Learn how Cascade is sequencing financing, policy, and markets to build practical refrigerant recovery systems in Southeast Asia.
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Why lifecycle refrigerant management matters
Learn about the benefits, what blocks progress, and how strategic interventions can unlock immediate climate wins while building economic resilience.
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