Soaring demand for carbon offsets is driving up prices and causing a supply crunch, as companies and investors scramble to buy the credits that compensate for emissions of the greenhouse gas.
The rising interest in offsets, which represent a tonne of carbon that has been permanently avoided or removed from the atmosphere, has tilted the market in favour of sellers, after years of low prices.
Between June 2021 and January 2022, the price of “nature based” offsets — such as those from tree-planting schemes — increased more than threefold from around $4.65 per tonne of carbon to around $14.40, according to S&P Global Platts.
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