Africa > INTERVIEW: World Bank to launch metadata project to clean up carbon market’s information problem

INTERVIEW: World Bank to launch metadata project to clean up carbon market’s information problem

Published 18:11 on July 7, 2022  /  Last updated at 12:19 on July 8, 2022  / Roy Manuell /  Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Australia, Aviation/CORSIA, China, EMEA, International, Kyoto Mechanisms, Nature-based, Paris Article 6, US, Voluntary

With information across global compliance and voluntary carbon markets fragmented and often confusing, the World Bank aims to cleanse the landscape by launching a free-to-access metadata layer that will link, aggregate, and harmonise underlying registry data to enable transparent accounting as per Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
With information across global compliance and voluntary carbon markets fragmented and often confusing, the World Bank aims to cleanse the landscape by launching a free-to-access metadata layer that will link, aggregate, and harmonise underlying registry data to enable transparent accounting as per Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.


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