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December 17, 2025 | News

Rohini Pande on the VoxDev Podcast: A proposal for a unified global carbon market

Yale’s Rohini Pande and LSE’s Robin Burgess discuss how to unify the fractured global markets for carbon emissions and provide a path to global net zero.

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Carbon markets are expanding rapidly around the world, but they remain fragmented, unevenly regulated, and – particularly in the voluntary space – lack credibility. In this episode of VoxDevTalks, Robin Burgess and Rohini Pande discuss their draft proposal for a unified carbon market, explaining why today’s patchwork of systems may be insufficient for the scale and speed of decarbonization required, and outline how a single, opt-in global compliance market could work in practice.