Are biodiversity credits doomed to repeat the voluntary carbon market’s flaws?

Published on October 22, 2024

To avoid carbon credit pitfalls, the nascent market's pioneers are keen to rule out offsetting and secondary market trading, while letting Indigenous peoples take the lead. But NGOs call the mechanism a “false solution to a false problem”.

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