'The timeline is too long': SBTI urged to confirm offsetting guidance for corporate supply chains this year

Cecilia Keating
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Voluntary carbon market platform Patch warns against plan to wait to finalise rulebook for delivering net zero corporate value chains until 2025

The CEO of a voluntary carbon market platform has written an open letter to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI), urging the body to hasten the timeline for confirming new guidance around how companies...

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