The fight against climate change is collective. However, as pressures mount on individual countries to meet their National Contributions (NDCs), the flawed infrastructure of carbon registries makes this goal difficult to achieve. Carbon markets have been an important element of efforts to reduce emissions, creating an economic impetus and a mechanism enabling nature conservation and a sustainable economic transition. While there is agreement on the desired outcomes of a functioning and highly integrated carbon market, there is less agreement on the path, standards and infrastructure to get us there. Even if the data and integrity of science-based removal credits can be ascertained, without a strong registry infrastructure, these carbon offsets are open to double counting. And with the proliferation of competing public and private registries vying for pole position, the potential for double counting is high because these registries are not interoperable, they simply do not "talk" to each other. (Bo Bai, Michael Sheren)

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