Swiss scientist Jürg Füssler wanted to improve the credibility of the global voluntary carbon market to counter criticism that it inappropriately gave corporations credit for addressing climate change.
Three years ago, Füssler joined a nonprofit council and helped establish guidelines to ensure that the projects genuinely helped cut greenhouse gas emissions.
But Füssler resigned this month, opposed to a council decision and skeptical that the entire unregulated voluntary carbon market can reduce global emissions.
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“It’s the problem of industry-led self-regulation, which is always a difficult thing to do,” Füssler, 56, said in a recent phone interview from Zurich. “Sometimes it works. But in most cases, it doesn’t work well.”
