Flanders complains about the hot air that others buy, but in a flawed system it clearly only tries to get its accounting right. Even with the more stringent criteria that the federal government has, the question remains: how sustainable is a policy that buys carbon credits in a market where more than half of what you buy is not purified, but hot air? An official who could not take it any longer, told that "the projects that really reduce emissions and the sustainable projects always fall out". This article provides examples of how we think we are tackling the climate problem today, including evidence of fraud.
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