With European companies under pressure to reduce their carbon footprint, many are looking to the unregulated voluntary carbon market to help them achieve their net zero targets.
This investigative project examines the proliferation of dubious practices among agents, intermediaries, and brokers in the voluntary carbon offset market, and aims to uncover the conflict between societal expectations for genuine environmental impact and the exploitation of such opportunities for embezzlement or other, more legitimate means of profit.
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