8️⃣Teething problems of blockchain-based solutions

There has been a lot of bad press during the first year of carbon credit tokenization as the direct consequence of shortcuts, dubious methodologies, low-cost and low-quality projects. Here are some of the articles without qualifying remarks by BlockCarbon - we do not want to claim the high road without proving ourselves first, and acknowledge how difficult it is to strike a good balance between liquidity, additionality and a level playing field for countires of different development levels that can avoid leakage into other jurisdictions, one of the main criticisms that the otherwise extremely successful market for Europen carbon allowances has attracted.

Therefore, we just provide some sample articles for the interested reader to form their own opinion and participate in the discussion

Posted April 7, 2022, 6:14 PM

The Biggest Crypto Effort to End Useless Carbon Offsets Is Backfiring

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/the-biggest-crypto-effort-to-end-useless-carbon-offsets-is-backfiring#xj4y7vzkg

Carbon Colonialism: Can carbon credits really save the planet?

Posted Mon 13 Feb 2023 at 5:30pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-13/carbon-colonialism/101968870

Posted Wed 18 Jan 2023 14:00 GMT

Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

Posted 13 Sep 2022 7:04 PM

EXCLUSIVE-Fears of 'subprime' carbon assets stall crypto mission to save rainforest