Averaging or multi-year accounting? Environmental integrity implications for using international carbon markets in the context of single-year targets

This paper assesses the environmental integrity implications of the two options that countries with single-year targets can use to account for internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs) under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: averaging and multi-year approaches.

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Averaging or multi-year accounting? Environmental integrity implications for using international carbon markets in the context of single-year targets

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