Tara L’Horty is a third-year PhD candidate in Economics at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), working jointly with the Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) and the Climate Economics Chair (CEC) under the supervision of Prof. Anna Creti and Prof. Philippe Delacote. 

Her research explores the effectiveness and design of market-based instruments for financing nature-based and land-use projects. Her PhD focuses specifically on the functioning and dynamics of Voluntary Carbon Markets, with an emphasis on how regulatory frameworks, information asymmetries, and buyer behavior shape market outcomes and environmental integrity. 

From January to May 2025, she visited the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment with Prof. Ben Groom and Prof. Frank Venmans. She is now visiting the Unit C3. Low Carbon Solutions (III): Land Economy & Carbon Removals of the DG CLIMA at the European Commission.