'Unambiguous and robust': IETA publishes new guidelines on corporate use of carbon credits

James Murray
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'Unambiguous and robust': IETA publishes new guidelines on corporate use of carbon credits

Guidelines aim to address growing concerns over the potential for carbon offsets to distract from the need to cut emissions at source

Just days after a major row erupted at the Science Based Targets Initiative over proposals to allow for the wider use of carbon offsets to count towards corporate net zero targets, the International Emissions...

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