Clever

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Carbon credit retirements have reached the highest level Clever has recorded for the first half of any year, according to the carbon market data provider's latest monthly tracking.

Buyers retire higher-quality credits as demand for integrity rises

Clever says the quality of retired credits is improving. It attributes the shift to a maturing market and buyer demand for integrity, transparency and accountability. The source gives no absolute retirement volumes or year-on-year percentages.

Asia drives growth in new credit supply

Supply of credits has grown, particularly in Asia. Clever reads this as evidence that countries are taking leadership roles in expanding carbon markets as a climate-change tool. New projects have increased alongside retirements.

New York – October 12, 2026 -- Transparency was the single dominant theme among carbon market participants at Climate Week NYC 2025, with buyers pressing for clearer verification quality and faster registry processes, according to data provider Clever.

Clever and Lympha host a buyer evening at Monarch Rooftop Bar

Clever and co-host Lympha ran an evening event at the Monarch Rooftop Bar during the week. Buyers used the session to compare notes on what is working in carbon markets and what needs fixing.

Clever said it attended to hear challenges from buyers, developers and registries, and plans to feed those insights back into its data platform.

Buyers target sluggish registry processes and verification quality

Clever reported three takeaways from the week:

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Clever has added more than 150,000 transactions and over 500 projects to its database over the past year, and says it is working toward a completed Enterprise Module in 2026.

Customer requests drive new filters and cost links

The platform now offers cleaner organization data, hyperlinked cost information, and new filters for accreditations and SDG goals. Clever says each refinement addresses a specific pain point raised by new and existing customers. The company says converting user feedback directly into features has sped up its product development.

Navigation and data quality get an overhaul

Clever has streamlined platform navigation, improved data quality, and automated backend processes. The automation is intended to support further capabilities ahead of the 2026 Enterprise Module, though the source gives no details on what those capabilities will include.

Global – – October 12, 2026 -- Sales of the Buyers Module on carbon data platform Clever tripled in the last quarter, the company said, as it readies an Enterprise Module for the Voluntary Carbon Market.

Clever adds search depth and document access after a year of client input

Over the past year, Clever worked with clients to identify the information that buy-side and sell-side stakeholders need. Users asked for deeper comparative analysis, more detailed field searches and links between aligned stakeholders.

The platform now lets users search by project, methodology or organization. It adds access to critical documents, downloadable transaction tables and new filtering fields requested by customers. Clever says it continually updates project and buyer data across registries.

Europe – October 12, 2026 -- Clever has activated a three-module SaaS suite for carbon market data, including a free Open Access tier covering 20,000 structured carbon offset project profiles, with no sign-up, private data sharing or paywall.

Open Access tier covers 20,000 projects across global registries

The free module provides project profiles, methodology protocols and credit issuance tables. It targets researchers, market observers and early-stage analysts who need broad visibility into carbon market activity but not advanced buyer or risk data.

Buyer-focused module profiles 80,000 purchasers

A second module delivers detailed profiles of 80,000 buyers, including transaction history, purchasing behavior and contact details, drawn from hundreds of thousands of records. Project developers, intermediaries, marketplaces and brokers can use it to find buyers, understand demand patterns and reach decision-makers.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Carbon market data platform Clever has launched its Enterprise Module and rolled out a series of updates centered on CORSIA project data, organization search and data exports.

Clever adds CORSIA issuance tables, labels and filters

Project pages now carry detailed CORSIA issuance tables. Individual issuances are labeled for CORSIA, and the Browse Projects page offers granular CORSIA filtering. Clever says the changes make it easier to identify credits aligned with emerging compliance and aviation demand signals.

Browse Organizations page gains industry filter and hyperlinked contacts

Industry is now a filter and a column on the Browse Organizations page. LinkedIn, website and email contact fields are hyperlinked. Top scope and methodology are now ranked by number of projects rather than credit volume, which changes how market participants' activity is presented.

India – October 12, 2026 -- Carbon-markets data provider Clever will release CleverIQ, a natural language query tool, in early access on May 1, adding a partnership with ICR and highlighting client Compliance Kart's new ENVR marketplace.

CleverIQ replaces manual filters with plain-language queries in the Buyers Module

Users can ask complex questions and receive structured answers without building filters or manually cross-comparing data. Clever says the tool delivers accurate results with no hallucinations and no black boxes. Existing Buyers Module users will be upgraded automatically. The company describes CleverIQ as an evolving product that it will keep refining over the coming months, and it is asking users for feedback.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Carbon market data platform Clever has added the ICR registry to its dataset, giving users a single place to compare projects and methodologies across registries.

Clever widens its dataset with EcoRegistry, ICR and Rainbow

Over recent months, Clever has prioritized relationships with EcoRegistry, ICR and Rainbow to broaden its data coverage. The company says the partnerships also extend its reach into more specialized and emerging areas of the carbon market. Registries gain visibility and accessibility for their projects, while Clever users see how activity, methodologies and opportunities are evolving across the ecosystem.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Clever has added Reduction vs. Removal classifications to detailed issuance tables, covering more than 2,400 projects across the CAR, Gold Standard and Rainbow registries where data is available.

Credit-level tags target net-zero purchasing decisions

The added layer lets buyers evaluate project characteristics faster and align purchases with corporate strategies, net-zero commitments and shifting market preferences. Clever offers the classifications through its platform, and a free Open Access Module is available for sign-up.