When telling the truth costs everything.

Dr. Sarah Okonkwo discovers that 85% of carbon offset credits fail basic integrity tests. All are verified as compliant with international standards.
The fraud isn't illegal. It's designed into the system.

Her peer-reviewed research documents how UN climate negotiations produce 14,847 pages of decisions while emissions rise 64%. How climate finance accounting transforms $25 billion delivered into $100 billion reported.

How green bonds fund business-as-usual while claiming sustainability. How consensus among 198 countries ensures the most resistant actors determine outcomes?a democracy deficit by design.

Every institution she documents responds identically: lawsuits, retractions, and systematic professional destruction.

CLIMATE FRACTURE follows Sarah across five years and seven COPs?from Geneva verification rooms to negotiations in Dubai, Baku, and Belém. She inherits 33 years of documentation from a dying colleague who spent his career proving the same pattern. She faces $10 million in legal judgments from carbon verifiers and financial institutions.

She watches her career destroyed while institutions acknowledge her findings are accurate.

The question isn't whether climate governance is failing.

The question is whether it's architecturally designed to produce theater instead of emissions reductions?and what happens to those who document the architecture.

A procedural thriller about institutional fraud, democratic dysfunction, and the professional cost of accuracy.

For readers of Ministry for the Future, The Sympathizer, and political thrillers that trust readers' intelligence.