Carbon Markets 2.0: Moving from Offsets to Removals

For the past decade, the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) was the “Wild West” of finance. Companies claiming to be “Net Zero” bought cheap offsets—paying someone $5 to not cut down a tree in the Amazon (avoidance credits). In 2026, the bubble has burst. Following a series of high-profile scandals in 2023-2024 where verification bodies were […]