Americas > Deeper reforms targetting flawed accounting, perverse incentives needed to preserve voluntary carbon market -researchers

Deeper reforms targetting flawed accounting, perverse incentives needed to preserve voluntary carbon market -researchers

Published 22:56 on January 30, 2025  /  Last updated at 22:56 on January 30, 2025  /  Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA, Nature-based, Voluntary

Despite improvements made in the past few years, “deeper and more comprehensive reforms” are required - in particular to address flawed accounting approaches and perverse incentives - in order to assure the voluntary carbon market’s longer-term sustainability, a new academic paper warns.
Despite improvements made in the past few years, “deeper and more comprehensive reforms” are required - in particular to address flawed accounting approaches and perverse incentives - in order to assure the voluntary carbon market’s longer-term sustainability, a new academic paper warns.


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