In this Carbon Pulse Comment, Robin Rix, Chief Legal, Policy, and Markets Officer, discusses why the fact that various governments recently have declared their intentions to exercise more control over carbon market activities in their jurisdictions is a positive development. It signals a “mainstreaming of carbon markets in public policy” and is a sign of “a maturing market where countries are making an understandable and arguably inevitable assertion of sovereignty over their natural resources.”
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Photo by Nick Hall, Avoiding Planned Deforestation and Degradation in the Valdivian Coastal Reserve Project (Verra Project 1175)