#carbonoffsets — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carbonoffsets, aggregated by home.social.
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I posted earlier about carbon offsets being the most cost-effective climate action — despite their well-documented flaws. The New Climate just published an expanded version with the full analysis, which is a vote of confidence in the numbers.
Why it matters: I'm building TheCoin, which makes offsetting free. This argument is why it's the most important thing I can do for the climate.
⬇️ https://medium.com/the-new-climate/in-defense-of-carbon-offsets-a42c20ac9d91
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Aleya does everything she can to avoid emissions, and when she absolutely has no choice to use polluting technologies, she offsets it. We think that's a pretty great approach to being carbon neutral/negative - and so Christina and I are pretty pleased to announce that we're making a monthly donation to https://trees.org/ to do what we can to walk the walk besides just talking the talk.
We like trees.org because in addition to planting a variety of fruit trees, the organization works with their partners in farming communities to upskill in agroecology and sustainable methods for thoughtful land management. Our donation has an impact on creating a sustainable future, not just through planting trees, but by helping people actively build that future in their present.
By joining our Patreon, you are helping us contribute to this positive world-making project - we're starting small at first, as we want our donation to be sustainable for years to come, and we'll be revising it pretty much monthly based on our numbers. It's not much, but it's doing what we can with what we have.
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A drying and pyrolysis system for conversion of industrial and municipal sewage into biochar and heat that will hopefully be widely adopted. #CarbonDioxideRemoval #Biochar #EnergySky #CarbonOffsets #Climate #Drawdown
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cumra2jzx2nm4yzbcngttuuh/post/3melmou3nom2s
SUEZ and PYREG launch an innov... -
High-Quality Carbon Credit Prices Hit Record Levels, Driven by Integrity and Market Shifts
High-quality carbon credits are becom…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #avoidedemissions #biodiversityco-benefits #carboncredits #carbonoffsets #Carbonprices #carbonremoval #carbonsequestration #CleanEnergy #climateaction #corporatenetzero #ESGinvesting #greenfinance #High-QualityCredits #MSCI #netzero #Science #sustainability #Sylvera #Voluntarycarbonmarket
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High-Quality Carbon Credit Prices Hit Record Levels, Driven by Integrity and Market Shifts
High-quality carbon …
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #avoidedemissions #biodiversityco-benefits #carboncredits #carbonoffsets #Carbonprices #carbonremoval #carbonsequestration #CleanEnergy #climateaction #corporatenetzero #environment #ESGinvesting #greenfinance #High-QualityCredits #MSCI #netzero #Science #Sustainability #Sylvera #UK #UnitedKingdom #Voluntarycarbonmarket
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I'm having a rest from #solarpunk because of hateful-comments,
They usually have problems with images like this. #rendering from #stablediffusion trained on my #photography of men in my tribe #FirstNations
The early #colonialist made the men cut their hair short, our #tradition. Many of the young ones today choose to grow it long again, which makes my eyes emotional.
Not photography it is #synthography. #carbonnegative #carbonoffsets #tech set-up.
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Food Banks Are Getting Into the Controversial Carbon Credit Business
Eight to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food wasted somewhere along its journey from farm to table. When that organic waste ends up in a landfill, it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as it slowly decomposes. Food banks can help prevent food waste from occurring by rescuing unsold food from grocers and retailers and redistributing it to families and…
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/174119/ A Rising Force in the Voluntary Carbon Market • Carbon Credits #afforestation #Article6 #BaseCarbon #Business #CarbonCreditTrading #CarbonCredits #CarbonOffsets #CarbonRemoval #CleanTechStocks #ClimateFinance #EnvironmentalMarkets #ESGStocks #GreenInvesting #Markets #NetZero #reforestation #SustainableInvesting #UK #UnitedKingdom #VietnamWaterProject #VoluntaryCarbonMarket
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Carbon offsets: not a great idea in the first place, hypes greenwashing, and gets more expensive over time.
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Landmark ‘Greenwashing’ Legal Case brought by Parents for Climate over ‘Carbon Neutral’ product closes with EnergyAustralia apology to customers
It is the first legal case of its kind in the country to protect the public from “carbon neutral” #Greenwashing#Carbonoffsets #Australia https://www.parentsforclimate.org/landmark_greenwashing_legal_case
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Can we break our #Addiction to #Infinite #Growth? : Medium
Why the #Climate #Promises of #AI sound a lot like #CarbonOffsets : Tech Review
#Graduate #Smart: #Career #Advice For The #AI Era : Forbes
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal
The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent #emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress.
The options being discussed range from allowing countries to defer steeper cuts to letting them count carbon reductions they pay for in other countries. Another idea would be to lean more on carbon that forests or technology can remove from the air."
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-exploring-weaker-2040-climate-goal-90-greenhouse-gas-cut-wopke-hoekstra/
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Top #climate standard-setter responds to carbon credit backlash
"Long-awaited guidance advises companies to rely primarily on cutting their own emissions, rather than buying offsets."
https://www.ft.com/content/cfc30f35-f525-462b-8321-38233a1a7046
The Science Based Target initiative, or #SBTi , explicitly says that #CarbonOffsets is BS.
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"I started studying carbon offsets 20 years ago studying problems with protocols and programs. Here I am, 20 years later having the same conversation. We need an alternative process. The offset market is broken."
#BarbaraHaya, Director, Berkeley Carbon Trading Project
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@markhburton there can be no ethical jet fuel. #Biofuels are by definition grown on land fit to grow human food, in a world in which many humans face food shortage or worse. Flying jets on biofuels will cause famine.
All #CarbonOffsets are knowing and deliberate fraud.
We just have to stop flying.
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Sigh... 😔
How a small Chinese company tricked the German state [DW Investigation] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_S97Ae1eg #CarbonOffsets #CarbonCredits #ClimateCrisis
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Companies remain committed to net zero emissions despite challenges. Organizations like Microsoft and Walmart have faced setbacks, leading them to scale back some of their goals. Here's why: #climatechange #COP29 #carbonoffsets https://theconversation.com/companies-are-still-committing-to-net-zero-emissions-even-if-its-a-bumpy-road-heres-what-the-data-show-239487
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Carbon offsets can help bring energy efficiency to low-income Americans − our Nashville data shows it could be a win for everyone https://theconversation.com/carbon-offsets-can-help-bring-energy-efficiency-to-low-income-americans-our-nashville-data-shows-it-could-be-a-win-for-everyone-240600 #climatechange #carbonoffsets #COP29
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"Less than 16% of the #CarbonCredits issued to the investigated projects constitute real #emission reductions, with 11% for cookstoves, 16% for SF6 destruction, 25% for avoided deforestation, 68% for HFC-23 abatement, and no statistically significant emission reductions from wind power and improved forest management projects. Carbon crediting mechanisms need to be reformed fundamentally to meaningfully contribute to climate change mitigation."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53645-z
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"Selling carbon offsets is deeply misguided. Offsets are unlikely to generate funds at the scale needed, and any offset transactions would negate the climate benefits from shutting down coal plants"
#ReclaimFinance: https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2024/11/12/coal-transition-commission-disappoints-with-misguided-promotion-of-offsets/
#credits #abatments #coal #CTC #COP29 #emissions #transition #energyTransition #offsets #energy #carbonOffsets #plants #coalPlants #carbon #GHG
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Here is your weekend reading of climate news through an #Australia lens from October. Lots of reports and news items to explore on #fossilfuels, reduction in #Biodiversity, #carbonoffsets, latest science, climate and health, #CHOGM, #cop16 and more.
Happy reading…
#ClimateCrisis
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Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/corporations-using-ineffectual-carbon-offsets-are-slowing-path-to-real-zero-more-than-60-climate-scientists-sayLethal Humidity Global Council Pledge signed by experts from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have cut emissions.
#CarbonOffsets #NetZero #RealZero #CarbonCredits #ClimateCrisis
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"#CarbonOffsets used by corporations around the world to lower their reportable greenhouse gas #emissions are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition”, according to more than 60 leading #ClimateChange scientists."
"Ineffectual" is code for "scam".
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@Nigel_Purchase This is really not the kind of information the corporate world wants to read!
Carbon offsets are the cotton candy in corporations’ dream worlds of sustainable / more sustainable / green / greener / net-zero / planet-positive / net-positive / give-back / building-a-better-tomorrow / etc Business As Usual.
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Financial analyst Alan Kohler on carbon offsets.
The whole safeguard mechanism for regulating the largest carbon polluters here in Australia is built on using carbon offsets. What a house of cards Labor has established. They use this as justification for not needing a climate trigger in environment laws. -
March 2024: German forests absorbed six percent of country's emissions in 2021 - statistical office
🌳 🎉 ?Oct 2024: Germany’s forests no longer a carbon sink, now net emitters – report
💢☠️🤦🏽♂️https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-forests-no-longer-carbon-sink-now-net-emitters-report
Oops… that happens when too much hope is placed on nature to compensate its own devastation and ravaging.
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Exclusive: Corporate climate watchdog document deems #CarbonOffsets largely ineffective
"The draft cites cases where #CarbonCredits have failed to deliver the #climate benefits they tout.
Staff also reviewed evidence showing some schemes sell more carbon credits than the projects can deliver on, or exaggerate the emission reductions they achieve."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/corporate-climate-watchdog-document-deems-carbon-offsets-largely-ineffective-2024-05-09/
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"The large amounts of residual emissions in most nations’ long-term strategies reveals that many are expecting to lean heavily on carbon removal to meet their net-zero targets, the study says."
#CCS #CarbonCaptureStorage #ResidualEmissions #CarbonOffset #CarbonOffsets #Greenwashing #Reforestation #EnergyTransition #NetZero
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#CarbonCredits and #Capitalism - a marriage made in hell - "‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from #credit schemes - "...after a year of controversies, the wider #carbon market is in crisis – with some experts concerned other schemes around the world could be abandoned amid evidence that many projects are producing huge numbers of worthless credits that many believe do not mitigate global heating ... Much of the €100m revenue generated by Kariba has been carved off along the way by the project developers in fees and expenses: €86m went into costs and profits assigned to the broker and technical lead #SouthPole and to the project coordinator #Carbon Green Investments. In the end, only a maximum of €14m went to Kariba’s communities through cash transfers and infrastructure improvements ... South Pole – which was not involved in providing any services on the ground – made €18m (£15m) profit, according to its figures, since deleted from its website – more than was spent on Kariba itself. The #Swiss firm deducted €24m in costs before sending €57m to Wentzel for his 30% share of revenue, project costs and local communities."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/money-carbon-credits-zimbabwe-conservation-aoe
#Carbon #CarbonOffset #CarbonOffsets #Greenwashing #FossilFuels #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klima #Klimakrise #Africa #Zimbabwe #Switzerland #Theft
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New Study: #FossilFuels Disproportionately Impact #Black, #Brown, #Indigenous, and #Poor Communities Throughout The Supply Chain
#CarbonOffsets, #CapAndTrade, #CCS and Other “#CarbonCentric” Policies Fail to Mitigate Air and Water #Pollution
by Tyler Kruse
June 5, 2023"The study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy.
WASHINGTON DC (June 5, 2023)–"A new peer-reviewed study details the risks of President Biden’s support for expanded fossil fuel production and exports. Despite campaign promises to take on fossil fuels, Biden has approved massive extraction projects and allowed a surge of crude and LNG exports. Against the backdrop of attacks on environmental justice in Congress – including the recent rollbacks to NEPA in the Fiscal Responsibility Act – and the Supreme Court’s undercutting of the Clean Water Act, the study titled 'Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities' finds that fossil fuels impose unfair and unjust health harms on Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor communities.
"The study identifies the public health harms as well as the disproportionate impacts on communities at each stage of the #coal, #oil, and #gas lifecycles – #extraction, processing, transport, and combustion. It was authored by experts from Greenpeace USA, Salem State University, and Taproot Earth and published in Energy Research & Social Science.
"The publication draws from 200+ academic studies which reveal a consistent pattern: fossil fuel pollution is associated with #asthma, birth complications, #cancer, #respiratory disease, heart conditions, and premature mortality. Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities bear a disproportionate burden of these harms. These same communities are hit hardest by the impacts of the climate crisis.
"Additionally, the study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing #GreenhouseGas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy. Black, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and low-income populations already have an elevated burden of exposure to air pollutants that can harm the respiratory system known as PM2.5, a pattern that is consistent across nearly all emission source types. Poorly designed climate policies could concentrate this pollution in community 'hotspots' even as overall carbon emissions decline.
"Dr. Tim Donaghy, research manager at Greenpeace USA and a co-author of the report, said: 'Fossil fuels harm both the climate and our health and must be phased out as fast as possible. But if our climate policies only focus on reducing carbon, we are missing an opportunity to greatly improve health in impacted communities. Carbon-centric policies being pushed by the oil and gas industry won’t alleviate fossil fuel racism and could worsen it for communities who already bear the brunt of the industry’s pollution. A better approach is to shift the focus to the root cause of both carbon and pollution, which are fossil fuels themselves. Policymakers should explicitly mitigate air and water pollution, advance #EnvironmentalJustice, and meaningfully include historically targeted communities in climate policy-making and implementation.”
"Noel Healy, professor of Geography and Sustainability at Salem State University and co-author of the report, said: 'Alarmingly, Biden is approving new #drilling at a faster rate than the Trump administration. This includes approving '#CarbonBombs' at the #AlaskaWillow and the #LNGAlaskaProject, and recently breaking a major G7 climate promise by financing an #Indonesian #OilRefinery. Continued approval of harmful and #Extractive fossil fuel licenses is a catastrophic climate and public health failure.'
"The study argues that #SystemicRacism enables the fossil fuel industry to avoid paying the true cost of its pollution by passing it on to communities of color. It identifies fossil fuel racism as a subset of environmental racism characterized by the disproportionate and racialized effects of climate change, fossil fuel extraction, transportation, processing, and consumption on Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor populations.
"The fossil fuel industry is fueling a public health crisis that disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income communities. Healy said: 'We can tackle the #ClimateCrisis, improve public health, and confront systemic racism by phasing out fossil fuels and enacting a #GreenNewDeal.'
"The study makes the following recommendations:
- The U.S. should implement a managed phase out of fossil fuel production to drive absolute pollution reductions in ‘#SacrificeZones’ and to align our policy with 1.5°C pathways.
- Enact a Green New Deal to halt climate change and build a more just and regenerative economy.
- Protect and expand democratic spaces."#EnvironmentalRacism #BigOilAndGas #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism
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"Peer-reviewed [research] shows unequivocally that many projects which have sold what are known as #REDD+ (reducing #emissions from deforestation and degradation) credits have failed to reduce#deforestation."
#CarbonOffsets
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‘Carbon gamble’? EU lawmakers back CO2 removal certification scheme https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/carbon-gamble-eu-lawmakers-back-co2-removal-certification-scheme/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #carboncertification #carbonoffsets #carbonremovals
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Koalas crushed, starving as Kangaroo Island's blue gum plantations come down
"As the plantations come, down dislocated koalas are hurting recovering native vegetation."
"Wildlife workers and researchers say Kangaroo Island koalas displaced by the removal of controversial Tasmanian blue gum plantations are starving — and an urgent solution is required...We're seeing koalas starving and being displaced in large numbers and this is just not good enough. Mrs Welz said since November last year, her group had cared for numerous animals with crush injuries."
"What we … would love to see is a sacrificial plantation where healthy koalas can be put in to live out their natural lives," she said."
"Koalas are not indigenous to Kangaroo Island and were introduced in the 1920s...the island's vegetation had not fully recovered from the Black Summer bushfires, and as koalas displaced by the plantation shutdown moved into farmland and areas of roadside vegetation, over-browsing was occurring."
"The spokesperson said the department was aware of the potential impacts on remnant native vegetation as koalas were forced to move, but that it was not considering acquiring or leasing part of the remaining unburnt plantation as a refuge."
"The animals are being displaced as the island's timber plantations come down."
""Locals say a koala management plan is needed as displaced animals are destroying native plants."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/calls-for-koala-management-kangaroo-island-plantations-removed/102754180
#wildlife #habitat #koalas #crush #injuries #plantations #RemnantVegetation #logging #BlackSummer #bushfires #CarbonOffsets #KangarooIsland #translocation -
Carbon markets allow us to monetize avoided emissions. #climatechange is going to kill lots of people. These people would have emitted several tons of CO2 per person per year.
Today's guest post provides a pragmatic, solution-oriented tool to help us achieve #netzero -- without disrupting the economy.
https://theluddite.org/#!post/peur-credits
#marketsolutions #climatepolicy #greencapitalism #greeninnovation #carbonoffsets #avoidedemissions #hustlefortheclimate
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CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/23/ceo-of-worlds-biggest-carbon-credit-provider-says-he-is-resigning #Verra #DavidAntonioli #CarbonOffsets #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #greewashing #FossilFuelCriminals
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How #honest is tree-nation.com?
A company I sometimes purchase from (pen.tips), then buys a tree in the name of their customer, in this case: me. And then you get a link to tree-nation with info of that tree.
In the last year I made 2 purchases from #PenTips, months apart.
And yet, tree-nation gave me two completely identical certificates for supposedly 2 different trees. #carbonoffsets #TreeNation
Is it another #scam like #EstablishedTitles?
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#IndigenousPeoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes
#UNPFII side event organized by the #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork (#IEN)
#extractivism #greenwashing #CarbonMarkets #CapAndTrade #EmissionTrading #CarbonOffsets #GreenCapitalism #GreenColonialism #ClimateChange
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#IndigenousPeoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes
#UNPFII side event organized by the #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork (#IEN)
#extractivism #greenwashing #CarbonMarkets #CapAndTrade #EmissionTrading #CarbonOffsets #GreenCapitalism #GreenColonialism #ClimateChange
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#IndigenousPeoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes
#UNPFII side event organized by the #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork (#IEN)
#extractivism #greenwashing #CarbonMarkets #CapAndTrade #EmissionTrading #CarbonOffsets #GreenCapitalism #GreenColonialism #ClimateChange
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#IndigenousPeoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes
#UNPFII side event organized by the #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork (#IEN)
#extractivism #greenwashing #CarbonMarkets #CapAndTrade #EmissionTrading #CarbonOffsets #GreenCapitalism #GreenColonialism #ClimateChange
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#IndigenousPeoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes
#UNPFII side event organized by the #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork (#IEN)
#extractivism #greenwashing #CarbonMarkets #CapAndTrade #EmissionTrading #CarbonOffsets #GreenCapitalism #GreenColonialism #ClimateChange
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@Snoro
as far as I am aware here in Australia domestic airline emissions will fall under the #SafeguardMechanism proposed scheme and will be able to offset 100% of emissions with Australian carbon offset credits. The integrity of those carbon credits already under question.International aviation covered by problematic ICAO CORSIA carbon offsets scheme .
Meanwhile new proposed runways like at Melbourne Airport will induce demand
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@JohanEmpa I know you are a keen advocate of #carbonremoval, but I beg you walk the fine line between doing your best with what is available (aka #greenserver, #treeplanting) and promoting the belief that buying #greencredits or paying into #carbonoffsets will actually REMOVE carbon from the atmosphere. It wont'. #Additionality is barely alive, in fact I'd argue it's long dead. #reduceemissions first, aka #stopflying.
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Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest #CarbonOffsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
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Most people don't know the difference between #CarbonOffsets and #CarbonRemovals
Anyway, we need to stop emitting CO2, but we also need to begin CO2 removals
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3/ That’s your teaser, I’ll be back with a thread later…
#climatechange #climateaction #co2emissions #alternativefuel #CO2 #ghg #greenwashing #carbonoffsets #climateemergency #netzero #decarbonization #extremeweather
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@ToobaSyed finance works on obfuscation of risk, beneficiaries, and control. Exactly how Neo-Colonialism proliferated.
Expecting the profiteers to not exploit the coming Climate Chaos the Global South faces will be foolhardy.
International finance got us here, why would it ever get us out?
#ClimateBonds #GreenBonds #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalSouth #Pakistan #CarbonCredits #CarbonOffsets
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@Rjdlandscapes sigh x2 … why is this so hard to understande/accept by many humans?? … coincidentally those in charge of big #Bussiness and #policymaking. We, as a collective of ppl, can pressure those in #power to change by choosing wiser solutions, being critical and outspoken abt mistakes such as #carbonoffsets. We must not let #consumism and #marketing rule over our lives. Let’s change our #mindset and search for a #sustainable way to be #happy. #stopCO2 #climatechange
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@pollyjhemming I had a go at aviation and carbon offsets and CORSIA in January 2017 in a slideshare presentation. What a minefield.
Came to the conclusions:
* We need to fly less
* Price flight tickets to include climate impact costs
* Implement demand management restriction of flying
* For aviation carbon offsetting, Choose quality carbon credits when you do fly (But how to choose when there is a lack of regulation and verification?)I'd probably add a frequent flyer levy now or use a personal carbon budget system. and perhaps a Hefty runway tax on private jets
#aviation #aviationemissions #carbonoffsets
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Cloverly snags $2.1M seed to continue developing API to measure and offset carbon usage - Cloverly, an Atlanta-based early stage startup, has developed an API that helps co... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zr7eOGB6bOc/ #atlantastartups #sustainability #recentfunding #carbonoffsets #seedfunding #developer #greentech #startups #cloverly #funding #apis