Major global initiative to bring rigor to net-zero emissions claims

摘要

A global multi-stakeholder initiative has been launched July 29involving governments, businesses and non-governmental groups in abid to establish guidance on how voluntary carbon credits can be usedto meet net-zero emissions strategies.The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative comes as aresponse to the need to establish high environmental standards in theVoluntary Carbon Market as companies and government seek to reachnet-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner.