Post 1: The Great Carbon Mirage – Why Voluntary Carbon Markets Have Not Been Transformative

• Brief history of the VCM and its promise.
• Key criticisms: greenwashing, lack of integrity, poor impact.
• Analysis of the hype cycles (e.g., KlimaDAO, tokenization experiments).
• Harmoniq’s take: What should carbon markets have achieved?

Post 2: ESG – From Savior to Smoke Screen

• ESG's origins and rise to dominance.
• Why ESG failed to transform capitalism.
• The problem with scores, fragmentation, and lack of systems thinking.
• How ESG has enabled “business-as-usual” under a new name.

Post 3: Lessons from the Compliance Market – What the EU Got (Mostly) Right

• Breakdown of the EU ETS and its impact on behavior.
• The role of regulation and enforced pricing.
• What can be learned and improved from this approach.

Post 4: A Paris-Aligned Market? Why It Hasn’t Emerged—Yet

• The Paris Agreement Article 6 mechanisms: ambitions vs. reality.
• Why global coordination has failed to birth a true carbon market.
• The difference between counting emissions vs. building resilience.

Post 5: Beyond Offsetting – Toward Regenerative Carbon Economies

• The flaw of treating carbon as a one-off offset or credit.
• Carbon as a long-term asset, an input, or part of circular economy design.
• Resilience-Backed Assets and the new role of carbon within systems.

Post 6: What Comes After Carbon? A Broader Approach to Planetary Health

• Carbon tunnel vision and its limits.
• Introducing multi-dimensional impact, planetary boundaries, and regional capacity models.
• How Harmoniq and aligned players are building the next phase.

Post 7: Designing for Integrity, Resilience, and True Contribution

• What would a trustworthy, effective sustainability market look like?
• Role of AI, verification, dynamic baselining, and regenerative incentives.
• Harmoniq’s vision for aligning carbon, finance, and care for life.