(Climate Now) As the climate crisis worsens, more and more companies are committing to go “net-zero”. Most of these commitments include the purchase of carbon offsets or investment in negative emissions projects, designed to offset the emissions resulting from companies’ operations.
The carbon offset market is in high demand due to this surge of net-zero pledges, but does the market actually work? How can companies be sure their dollars are removing carbon that otherwise wouldn’t be removed from the atmosphere? And what are the risks of a market that doesn’t uphold its promise of truly offsetting emissions?
Dr. Mark Trexler of the Climatographers and Derik Broekhoff of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) joined Climate Now to discuss the carbon offset market, what’s wrong with it, and what its future could be. READ MORE/PODCAST
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The climate policy actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere
By
Lisa Song
Wednesday July 14, 2021
When people write carbon offset rules, they always ignore the fact that there are 1,000 smart people next door that will try to game them. (ead72/Adobe)
Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off the Pacific sustains a strip of temperate rainforests. Soaring redwoods and Douglas firs dominate these thick, wet woodlands, creating a canopy hundreds of feet high.
But if you travel inland the mix of trees gradually shifts.
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