Sandeep Roy Choudhury

Please understand that we worry about it, so do the current standards.

A carbon finance is not a grant, it's a transaction.

It talks to the equality of the transactor and the transacted.

A farmer transitioning to a cleaner practice is being paid for a service.

It's not a dole-out.

These people, these programs, have nowhere else to go for money.

So companies will reduce what they can.

and they will invest in carbon credits for what they can't, for it's the right thing to do.

But today, all of the market detractors make it impossible or make it so much harder for companies who are actually trying.

This will not solve this problem.

We have to keep trying, for mistakes will happen, and that's OK.

What is not right is to let go of the only tools that work for the Global South.

Today, we are making inaction feel safer than action.

That's not how this suits itself.

So let's fix what needs fixing.

Let's take responsibility for all those emissions and leave no emissions behind.

Price every ton.

That's the only responsible thing to do.

Thank you.