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permanence of carbon credits

Permanence of carbon credits

Being aware of the tenets constituting a high integrity carbon credit is important to avoid claims of greenwashing while increasing accountability and transparency in an opaque market. There are ten tenets recognised by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM). Two of these, additionality and double counting, have

Environmental Sustainability

The benefits of environmental sustainability for business

What Is Environmental Sustainability? The most widely known definition of sustainability is the one declared by Investopedia which states: ‘The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social—also known informally as profits, planet, and people.’ This definition was created for the 1987 United Nations Brundtland Commission