ART’s Controversial Certification of Carbon Credits to the Government of Guyana: A Case Study on Challenges for “High-Integrity” Labels in Carbon Markets
February 13, 2025The voluntary carbon market has come under intense scrutiny over concerns around the environmental and social integrity of the carbon credits being sold. Even certification bodies are seemingly incapable of delivering on their promise to certify “high-integrity” credits. The certification of jurisdictional REDD+ carbon credits by the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) to the Government of Guyana (GoG) in December 2022 provides an important case study on the challenges facing the high-integrity carbon market.