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ike Verra
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| Claim | Asserted by | Stance | Evidence balance | Source | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| carbon markets are a monetary restructuring play rather than climate solution | unattributed | critical | +1.0 | CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The | |
| most projects did not substantially reduce deforestation, and those that did reduced it much less than had been claimed | West et al. | critical | — | Title and Executive Summary | ↗ |
| systematic over-crediting in California's compliance offsets program | Badgley et al. | critical | — | Title and Executive Summary | |
| only a minority of project units showed statistically significant reductions in deforestation, and just 19% met their reported emissions targets | Tang et al. | critical | — | Title and Executive Summary | ↗ |
| more than 90% of Verra's rainforest offset credits are likely to be 'phantom credits' and do not represent genuine carbon reductions | The Guardian | critical | — | Title and Executive Summary | ↗ |
| the voluntary carbon market is empirically closer to a wealth-transfer mechanism than an abatement technology | unattributed | pro | — | CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The | ↗ |
| Verra projects had sold ~3x more credits than the forest preservation justified | Cambridge | critical | — | CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The | ↗ |
| climate profiteering | Carbon Market Watch | critical | — | CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The | |
| Verra disputes the methodology of the West et al. (2023) analysis | ike Verra | critical | — | Title and Executive Summary | ↗ |