Perspective22/03/24
The opaqueness of Voluntary Carbon Market prices and its impact on stakeholders
A pervasive challenge within voluntary carbon market is the lack of transparency in credit pricing, a dynamic that significantly influences the experiences of project developers and buyers/investors alike. We view this veil of opaqueness as a function of two things – 1) carbon credits are by design heterogenous, and credits emerging from different projects hold different value, and 2) a complex web of intermediaries that tend to operate in an opaque manner and often benefit from it.