Published: December 12th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Due to criticism of the assessment standards for carbon certificates by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), two members of the body have resigned from their posts. Lambert Schneider from the Berlin-based Öko-Institut and Jürg Füssler from Infras in Zurich refuse to support the ICVCM’s decision to classify certain forest protection credits as „high integrity.“ In their view, the committee made decisions against its own rules.