{"id":3341,"date":"2023-05-23T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2023-05-23T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:42:30","slug":"ceo-of-largest-carbon-credit-certification-body-resigns-after-claims-offsets-are-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/23\/ceo-of-largest-carbon-credit-certification-body-resigns-after-claims-offsets-are-worthless\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of biggest carbon credit certification body resigns after claims offsets worthless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\"><span>The head of the world&#039;s leading certifier of carbon credits has announced that he will step down as CEO next month. <\/span><span>It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions in worthless offsets used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint investigation\u00a0<\/span><span>Guardian<\/span><span> earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><span>Vo\u00a0<\/span><span>statement on LinkedIn<\/span><span>\u00a0on Monday, Verra CEO David Antonioli said he would step down from his role after 15 years leading the organization that dominates the $2 billion voluntary carbon market, which has certified more than 1 billion credits through its Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).\u00a0<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>(Patrick Greenfield)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the world\u2019s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month. It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions in worthless offsets used by big companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint Guardian investigation earlier this year. In a statement on LinkedIn on Monday, Verra\u2019s CEO, [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-offsetove-projekty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}