The key to scaling greenhouse gas removals? Robust monitoring, reporting, and verification

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As reports of low-quality carbon credits abound, MRV frameworks must be carefully developed and judiciously implemented, writes the Grantham Research Institute's Leo Mercer

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this month released its Sixth Assessment synthesis report, which makes another urgent call for nations to implement rapid and deep cross-sectoral emissions...

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