A global carbon credit program risks rewarding the wrong behavior

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Apr 2, 2026, 5:10 pm123 ptsTrending
A United Nations-backed framework for protecting tropical forests could allow governments to collect income from carbon credits without advancing forest conservation. The weakness lies in how the program calculates baselines, which is the expected rate of deforestation without intervention. There is no evidence…

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