
Carbon Credits as an Asset Class: How Individual Investors Can Access the Market in 2026
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250 billion dollars. That is the figure often cited in long-range projections, originally popularized by McKinsey scenario models, for the potential scale of the voluntary carbon market by 2050. It represents a theoretical leap from 2024 market estimates, which vary between 1 billion and 4 billion dollars depending on the methodology used to track offset retirements. Most individual portfolios currently bypass this asset class because the structural entry barriers were designed for institutional hedging, not retail speculation...
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