One fifth of Kyoto credits flawed

James Murray
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WWF investigation claims 20 per cent of the carbon credits traded through the UN CDM should not have been certified

One fifth of the emission reduction credits sold under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are fundamentally flawed, according to a new report from the WWF. The study, Is the CDM...

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