Oil spill: How fossil fuel interests are seeping into the voluntary carbon market rulebook

Oil spill: How fossil fuel interests are seeping into the voluntary carbon market rulebook

Oil and gas interests pollute the carbon crediting rulebook and invest heavily in a marketplace flush with low-quality carbon credits. An upcoming Carbon Market Watch report demonstrates how some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies use their oversized leverage to influence major decision-making bodies in the voluntary carbon market. For the last three years, the world’s largest corporate buyer of carbon credits on the voluntary carbon m…