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Maintaining Carbon Market Integrity: Why Renewable Energy Certificates Are Not Offsets

Posted in Learn on July 19, 2009

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OQI Publishes Brief, “Maintaining Carbon Market Integrity: Why Renewable Energy Certificates Are Not Offsets”
The World Resources Institute Analyzes Offset Quality in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009


http://www.offsetqualityinitiative.org/OQI%20REC%20Brief%20Web.pdf


http://www.offsetqualityinitiative.org/OQI%20REC%20Brief%20Exec%20Sum%20Web.pdf

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