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Asia's carbon markets: invest in nature

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Singer Elvis Presley’s famous demand for “a little less conversation, a little more action, please” could have been tailor-made for today’s carbon markets.The conversations have been remarkable: the summits, the standards, the integrity frameworks, the investigative journalism. And the market did respond, by contracting, filtering and rebuilding on firmer ground.Yet, forests and peatlands across Borneo and Sumatra, holding thousands of years of stored carbon, keep disappearing. Each year of delay not only raises the cost of protecting these ecosystems, it also deepens overshoot risk, locking in emissions and making the path back to climate stability steeper, costlier and more uncertain. For Asia’s business…

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