Are carbon reduction claims accurate? (IMAGE)

Kyoto University

Are carbon reduction claims accurate?

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"Concerns are growing that many projects supplying carbon credits on the VCM are of low quality and fail to achieve the emissions reductions claimed by their developers," says lead author Gregory Trencher of KyotoU's Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies.

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KyotoU (adapted from flickr/mrhayata) https://www.flickr.com/photos/36516818@N00/392904162

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