Carbon Market Watch: Climate policy is failing to prevent offsetting from slowing emissions cuts

Cecilia Keating
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Carbon Market Watch: Climate policy is failing to prevent offsetting from slowing emissions cuts

Policymakers must ensure carbon offsetting and removals come in addition to - and not at the expense of - emissions cuts, analysis warns

Climate policymakers around the world are failing to take sufficient steps to ensure the nascent carbon removals industry delivers promised emissions savings, Carbon Market Watch has this morning warned....

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