Carbon offsets have faced criticism in shipping for not tackling emissions within the sector. Enter carbon insets, tokens that allow a company to pay for greenhouse gas reductions within the maritime supply chain.

The Green Seas podcast has explored this new product in detail to explain how insets, or book-and-claim systems, can help connect shippers that want to buy green freight, and vessel owners and operators that want to monetise their investments in green fuels and technology.

We also explore a partnership between fuels provider Titan and climate tech firm 123Carbon to provide inset tokens for LNG and liquefied biomethane.

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And the podcast asks how the inset market can avoid the questions that have dogged offsets around the Have

We talk to 123Carbon managing director Jeroen van Heiningen, Titan business developer Tom de Ruyter of Titan and Verifavia commercial director Guillaume de Roys.

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