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September 9, 2024
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Let’s be honest. The last 12 months in carbon/environmental markets have been a challenge. On one hand, the constant stream of news articles highlighting the various failings of high-profile projects and markets. On the other, self-appointed academic/expert groups are shrinking the climate action playing field by making perfection the enemy of the good. The result? Increased cynicism around climate action, causing many organizations and governments to step back from increased climate action, at a time that we need it most.
Should we blame the media and the like for trying to sell newspapers? Not really. They have highlighted real problems with projects and current standards and we can thank them for shining a light on the most important issue: we can’t scale needed climate action with yesterday’s technology or approaches. To scale up climate action and successfully push back on groups like SBTI trying to claim that less climate action is somehow more, we need to do things differently. It's time for us all to step up, not back. Better systems. Better data. More auditability. More integrity.
Climate action isn’t delivered from the cheap seats. It’s delivered in the trenches, in hard to abate sectors and in the have-not corners of the planet. To paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, we need more, not less, people in the proverbial arena striving valiantly. As we lead up to Climate Week in NYC later this month, we’ll be sharing some exciting news on how we are working with those in the arena to do things differently. Our goal is simple: to restore trust, increase transparency, and ensure we keep scaling climate impact.
We’re stepping up, not back. Who’s with us?