The Good News is That A Lot of Carbon Offset Players Recognize the Need for a Carbon Offset Scoring System
The Bad News is That We Could End Up With a Whole Series of Very Different Scoring Systems, Some of Them Black Boxes
Scoring Systems May Try to Include Too Many Variables, Which Makes Scores a Lot Harder to Interpret, and a Lot Easier to Game or Greenwash
How Will the Market React to These Scoring Systems is a Big Question, Since if Done Well They Should Make it A Lot More Difficult for Buyers to Take Advantage of Low Cost Low Confidence Offsets, and Should Generally Push Up Offset Prices
If You’re Aware of Other Materials on Offset Scoring, Please Pass Them Along and We’ll Include Them in the Climate Web.