With voluntary carbon markets, it’s still buyer beware
After net-zero pledges, companies are stumped navigating a fragmented carbon marketplace
IN 2012, before it became trendy for companies to make “net-zero” or “carbon-neutral” promises, Jebsen & Jessen Group was already buying carbon credits to voluntarily offset its carbon footprint.
The Singapore-based industrial group’s chairman, Heinrich Jessen, a biologist by training, had championed it as an extension of the family enterprise’s long-running efforts to cut the business’ impact on the environment to a minimum.
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