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Carbon offsets as part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have been a key method for achieving the overall goals of climate accords since their first appearance as a centerpiece in the Kyoto Protocol (1997). Through its stimulation of carbon trading, the CDM has generated cross-national standards in technology, design, and social applications around pollution abatement, and has served as a central coordinating mechanism for those standards. But the CDM’s effectiveness has been debated in terms of its ability to help countries achieve their greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets (Schneider, 2009; 2011) and their broader sustainability goals (Ansari, Wijen, & Gray, 2013). Rawhouser, Cummings, and Hiatt (2019) do a fine job of documenting, with deep and broad data, some of the elements of this debate as organization theorists would view it. They illuminate how specific administrative, cultural, and …