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Saudi Arabia now offers two routes to carbon credits. RVCMC is a PIF- and Tadawul-backed trading exchange, and GCOM is the domestic mechanism for Saudi-origin projects. Almost all credits sold through RVCMC so far originate outside the Kingdom, and whether a credit is authorised under Article 6 decides what a buyer can legally claim. For […]

CBAM’s Definitive Regime Is Live: What GCC Steel and Aluminium Exporters Actually Owe in 2026 The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) entered its definitive regime on 1 January 2026, but a GCC steel or aluminium exporter owes very little in certificate cash for 2026, and nothing is payable until 30 September 2027. What is […]

Healthcare produces roughly 4.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and most of it is indirect. In the GCC, three upstream sources carry a disproportionate share and are routinely left out of measurement: anaesthetic gases vented from operating theatres (Scope 1), single-use devices whose emissions are embedded at manufacture (Scope 3), and imported pharmaceuticals produced outside […]

On 11 June 2026, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) published Version 2.0 of its Corporate Net-Zero Standard, the framework most large companies use to set credible climate targets. The revision marks a change of emphasis rather than of principle. The first version rewarded the ambition of a target. The second is designed to test […]

Scope 3 Category 1, the cradle-to-gate emissions of purchased goods and services such as concrete, steel, and aluminium, accounts for the large majority of a construction company’s carbon footprint and is the most difficult category to report. In the GCC, the gap is wider because the library of verified Environmental Product Declarations is limited and […]

We’re glad to share that Mohammed AlNakhi has joined Coral’s Board of Advisors as Strategic Advisor, Energy & Net Zero. Mohammed knows the energy transition from the inside. With over two decades at bp, from hydrogen business development to his current role leading JV strategy and risk, and through Catalyst he’s spent years backing and […]

Burning rubbish to make electricity sounds like a magic trick. Waste disappears, the grid gets power, and a landfill the size of a neighbourhood never gets built. Dubai now runs a plant that does exactly this at a scale no other single site in the world matches. Sharjah got there first. Saudi Arabia plans gigawatts […]

The Trust Stack: Why ESG Software Has to Earn Three Kinds of Trust Most software asks you to trust it with your data. ESG software asks for something harder. It asks you to trust the numbers it gives back, then sign them, then hand them to a regulator, a lender, or an auditor with your […]

A stranded asset is a building that loses economic value well before the end of its useful life because external conditions shift, whether through physical climate damage, rising insurance costs, or new regulation. In the GCC, all three pressures are converging: the Gulf is warming faster than the global average, the most valuable waterfront stock […]

Coral is one of 15 startups selected and the only climate and sustainability data infrastructure company in the Google for Startups Accelerator: MENAT cohort. Coral has been selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey; one of 15 startups in a highly selective cohort of AI-native companies […]

Regenerative agriculture credits are emerging as a way to fund farming practices that restore soil, improve water retention, reduce chemical dependency and, where properly measured, store more carbon in agricultural land. For the GCC, this is a food security, desertification, water resilience and supply-chain data story. The opportunity is real, but only if credits are […]

Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) is a structured program used to find, measure, repair and verify leaks from equipment such as valves, flanges, connectors, pumps and compressors. In oil and gas, LDAR is especially important for managing methane emissions from fugitive sources. A strong LDAR program does not only detect leaks; it also creates the […]

The GCC’s marketplace economy is getting bigger, faster, and harder to measure cleanly. Dubai’s Dubai Traders Initiative says it has onboarded more than 2,600 e-commerce sellers, and WORLDEF Dubai 2026 explicitly framed the future of e-commerce around innovation, sustainability, and inclusive growth. In parallel, the UAE climate law applies to sources in the state, including […]

For FMCG operators in the GCC, cold chain emissions rarely sit in one neat box. They are usually split across Scope 1 fugitive emissions from refrigerant leaks, Scope 2 electricity used to keep products cold, and Scope 3 emissions from outsourced refrigerated transport and storage. The accounting treatment is straightforward in principle, but the harder […]

GCC hospitality groups do not need to chase all 15 Scope 3 categories at once and drown in complexity from day one. The smarter move is to start where the data is already within reach: guest travel the hotel can actually see, influence, or arrange, and procurement categories that already flow through daily operations, especially […]

Net-zero intent in GCC real estate often underperforms after handover because design assumptions can diverge from real occupancy, controls, and maintenance practice. That matters in a region where building operations are a major energy and emissions lever, Dubai’s green building rules explicitly cover planning, design, construction, and operation, and GSAS states that a building’s long-term […]

Product carbon footprints break down when factor versions, boundaries, supplier inputs, and corrections change without control. For GCC companies, a defensible PCF means locked factor sets, versioned methodology, evidence-linked activity data, and a change log that shows what changed, why it changed, and whether history was restated. That matters more now because the EU’s Carbon […]

Emission factors in the GCC: DEFRA vs IEA vs local utility factors (and how to govern them) Emission factors can change your reported footprint even when operations stay the same, especially in electricity-heavy GCC businesses. The safest approach is to prioritize the most geographically representative factors available (utility/subnational for Scope 2 where possible), use IEA […]

COP outcomes matter in the GCC when they change what gets funded, what gets bought, and what gets audited. COP29 (Baku, 2024) agreed a quantified post‑2025 New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance, with developed countries taking the lead in mobilizing USD 300bn per year by 2035 for developing countries and a broader collective […]

Financed emissions are the portion of a counterparty’s greenhouse gas emissions attributed to a financial institution’s loans and investments (Scope 3 Category 15: Investments). In the GCC, financed emissions programs most often break on three points: inconsistent attribution in syndicated and structured financing, uneven portfolio coverage, and weak auditability when evidence is scattered across PDFs, […]