A new Carbon Market Watch analysis, based on currently available project data, has uncovered that the first project transitioning from the CDM to the Article 6.4 market is poised to issue an astonishing 27.4 times more credits than it should as compared to the values from peer-reviewed scientific literature. For the initial batch of carbon credits set to be released under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, only one in every 27 is likely to represent real emission reductions
