Improving carbon markets can help finance large-scale climate action; rejecting them outright means potential is lostKUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Supporters of forest-based carbon markets will point to the continual improvements made to methodologies as science advances, the increasing use of precision technologies to monitor impacts, and the opportunity they provide for transfering climate finance from the global north to the global south, as among reasons to use high quality credits as one of a package of tools to drive climate, biodiversity and local community gains.