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the voluntary carbon market is empirically closer to a wealth-transfer mechanism than an abatement technology unattributed pro +4.0 CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The
carbon markets are a monetary restructuring play rather than climate solution unattributed critical +1.0 CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The
most projects did not substantially reduce deforestation, and those that did reduced it much less than had been claimed West et al. critical Title and Executive Summary
systematic over-crediting in California's compliance offsets program Badgley et al. critical Title and Executive Summary
only a minority of project units showed statistically significant reductions in deforestation, and just 19% met their reported emissions targets Tang et al. critical Title and Executive Summary
more than 90% of Verra's rainforest offset credits are likely to be 'phantom credits' and do not represent genuine carbon reductions The Guardian critical Title and Executive Summary
Verra projects had sold ~3x more credits than the forest preservation justified Cambridge critical CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The
climate profiteering Carbon Market Watch critical CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The
Verra disputes the methodology of the West et al. (2023) analysis ike Verra critical Title and Executive Summary