In 2020, Mark Chen’s son sent his relatives a brief and unusual Christmas list: In lieu of presents, he wanted carbon credits.
“He was 12 at the time,” Chen told TechCrunch. “He came up with the idea. I thought it was great, so I started looking into carbon credits. I stepped into the chaos that is the carbon credit market. I thought I knew what I was doing because I had experience in solar, and I have a technical background, but it was crazy.”
He started by trying to determine what made a project high quality, which rating…

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