Bill Gates points out problems with tree planting to address climate change. That doesn’t stop him pushing offsetting though.
Tag: Carbon Offsets
The fantasy of carbon offsetting: Liberating laughter; Carbon experts; Bad projects; and MacGuffin offsets
Robert Watt’s paper, “The fantasy of carbon offsetting” explains why carbon offsetting survives despite its many problems and contradictions.
Greenpeace and the Wildlife Trusts raise concerns about Mark Carney’s carbon offsets plan: “A giant get-out-of-jail-free card for polluting companies”
A letter from Greenpeace UK and the Wildlife Trusts is critical of Mark Carney’s carbon offsetting plans. But not critical enough.
Open letter to Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: Carbon offsets are “riddled with fraud and human rights abuses”
Green Finance Observatory’s open letter to Mark Carney highlights the problems with carbon offsets and carbon trading.
Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: The global financial elite’s plan to profit from the climate crisis while maintaining business as usual for Big Oil
Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets is what happens when the financial elite are let loose on the climate crisis.