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Carbon Credit Market – Tomas Aguirre, Brazil

Read the beginning of the following The Guardian article:

Revealed: More than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows

The forest carbon offsets approved by the world's leading certifier [...] and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations are largely worthless and could make global heating worse, according to a new investigation.

The research into leading carbon standard for the rapidly growing $2bn (1.6bn) voluntary offsets market, has found that, based on analysis of a significant percentage of the projects, more than 90% of their rainforest offset credits – among the most commonly used by companies – are likely to be "phantom credits" and do not represent genuine carbon reductions.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

The issue described in the article in which, according to The Guardian's investigation, the nonprofit organisation does not do carbon offset projects as well as what was contracted by its clients, can be considered:

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