Biodiversity credit initiatives face rising scrutiny, scepticism

Published on November 27, 2024

In recent years, biodiversity credit projects and the methods to calculate their value have proliferated, seen by some as a way to finance the US$700 billion gap in conservation funding identified in the 2022 Global Biodiversity Framework.

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