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Five ways to improve the global voluntary carbon credit markets

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par Mark Maslin, Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL

The severity of climate change means we all need to reduce our carbon footprint to zero as quick as possible, including companies. The voluntary carbon markets were set up to allow companies to buy and sell carbon credits to offset their emissions.

A carbon credit is a promise to the purchaser that their greenhouse gas emissions will be offset in the future by the same amount. This could be by avoiding emissions elsewhere or extracting the same amount from the atmosphere.

The voluntary…

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