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Tag: Carbon Offsets

Bill Gates: “Now some of these offsets are very complicated. Ah, you know, trees for example . . .”

Posted on 12 February 202112 February 2021

Bill Gates points out problems with tree planting to address climate change. That doesn’t stop him pushing offsetting though.

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The fantasy of carbon offsetting

The fantasy of carbon offsetting: Liberating laughter; Carbon experts; Bad projects; and MacGuffin offsets

Posted on 9 February 2021

Robert Watt’s paper, “The fantasy of carbon offsetting” explains why carbon offsetting survives despite its many problems and contradictions.

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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”

Posted on 5 February 20215 February 2021

A letter from Greenpeace UK and the Wildlife Trusts is critical of Mark Carney’s carbon offsetting plans. But not critical enough.

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Mark Carney

Open letter to Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: Carbon offsets are “riddled with fraud and human rights abuses”

Posted on 27 January 202127 January 2021

Green Finance Observatory’s open letter to Mark Carney highlights the problems with carbon offsets and carbon trading.

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Mark Carney

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

Posted on 26 January 202127 January 2021

Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets is what happens when the financial elite are let loose on the climate crisis.

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