Soil Carbon Registries: How Governance Shapes Claims
The rules inside a soil carbon registry determine which sequestration claims survive verification, and farmers rarely see the decisions that cut their payments.
BusinessHow Emissions Trading Schemes Lock Out Industrial Emitters
The internal rules of cap-and-trade programs determine which heavy industries can use carbon offsets, and which are stuck buying allowances.
BusinessWhy Smaller Emitters Cannot Access Carbon Markets
Wholesale carbon markets were built for large regulated installations. Smaller emitters pay a steep intermediary premium, or find the door closed entirely.
BusinessSoil Carbon Credit Markets and the Farmers They Exclude
Measurement costs, additionality rules, and contract structures combine to shut smaller farms out of soil carbon markets, regardless of sequestration quality.