Driving High Quality, Integrity, and Confidence in Offsets: What the Market Should Demand
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As companies and jurisdictions strive to meet their climate goals, carbon credits are an important tool to address their current carbon footprint while they work on reducing that footprint size. How does the VCM ensure these credits being used are of high quality and integrity? How do buyers know carbon credits benefit our environment and truly contribute to ambitious climate goals, as well as ensure projects provide positive economic and social benefits? In this episode, Alexia Kelly, Managing Director of the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI) at the High Tide Foundation will discuss how carbon credit buyers can be empowered to identify high-quality credits and lead the market toward pursuing the highest standards.
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