Carbon Markets as Outsourced Mitigation: Smart Climate Strategy or Convenient Fiction?
About this episode
The episode explores the role of voluntary carbon markets in emissions reduction and their effectiveness as a climate strategy.
Get in touch - leave me a message What if voluntary carbon markets are either a vital climate tool... or a polished excuse to delay real decarbonisation? In this episode of Climate Confident, I’m joined by Dr Jennifer Jenkins, Chief Science Officer at Rubicon Carbon, to unpack one of the most contested questions in climate tech and net zero strategy: what role, if any, should voluntary carbon markets play in real-world emissions reduction? At a time when companies are under pressure to decarb...
People in this episode
Host: Tom Raftery
Guest: Dr Jennifer Jenkins
Topics covered
- carbon markets
- climate strategy
- decarbonisation
- emissions reduction
- voluntary carbon markets
Keywords
- carbon markets
- decarbonisation
- climate tech
- net zero strategy
- emissions reduction
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Rubicon Carbon
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