Akeba, Patrick AtiawinAbubakar, Al-Amin Sharrif2026-11-112026-11-112026Atiawin Akeba, P. and Sharrif Abubakar, A.A., Aligning Ghana’s Carbon Credit Regulation with International Climate Commitments: Legal Gaps and Institutional Imperatives. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 22(1).10.25501/soas.1094412https://hdl.handle.net/10566/25775Ghana’s Environmental Protection Act 2025 (Act 1124) establishes the first statutory framework for carbon market participation in the country’s history. This comment argues that the Act creates a formally adequate but structurally incomplete regime: it builds an international trading architecture on top of an unresolved property rights question generated by Ghana’s pluralist land tenure system. Approximately eighty per cent of Ghana’s land is held under customary tenure by stools and skins, yet the Act defers the definition of carbon rights and ownership to future regulations. This deferral is not a technical gap alone; it reflects a fundamental tension between the Article 6 market logic, which presupposes clear, state-authorised, tradeable entitlements, and the customary legal order in which land and resource rights are communally held and fiduciarily administered. Drawing on doctrinal analysis of Act 1124 and Ghana’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (2021), this comment contends that durable carbon market governance in Ghana requires not merely supplementary regulations but a coherent mediation of two normative orders. Legal pluralism provides the analytical lens for this diagnosis and for the reform framework the article proposes.enEnvironmental protection act 2025 (act 1124)Ghana’s pluralist land tenure systemLegal pluralismCarbon market participationArticle