#carbonoffsets — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carbonoffsets, aggregated by home.social.
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carbon offsets be like:
"Pay me to not cut down this forest."
"Were you going to?"
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"Will you give me money if I say yes?"
"Cool here's £1 million, just sign here and the government will let us do £20 million worth of pollution." -
Honest Government Ad | Bulls*it™ - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IW1J2_masg#Satire #ClimateCrisis #CarbonOffsets #Australia #California
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Carbon credits as currently structured are ineffective for funding peatland restoration - but if effective, they could be actively harmful.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486261437571
#wetlands #GHG #conservation #carbonCredits #rewetting #rewilding #carbon #peatland #peatlands #landuse #land #landscape #carbonOffsets #UK #Britain
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”When our rewilding program started, many big corporations offered us huge amounts of money if we certified carbon credits. We consulted with communities. But our answer was that we don’t sell nature.”
#climateFinance #wetlands #rewetting #prevention #deterrence #rewilding #Finland #Karelia #peatland #restoration #landUse #peatlands #nature #carbon #carbonSinks #CDR #wildfires #offsets #carbonOffsets #communities
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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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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/
#SBTi -
For solarpunks, the ability to hold two conflicting concepts in one’s mind is necessary when it comes to carbon offsets, in order to walk the tension that is life in late capitalism: understanding that the program can be used for good or for evil and is currently being used for both, necessitating a deeper, more thorough look through what exactly constitutes a particular carbon offset program.
https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/carbon-offset-karma-or-indulgence
#carbonoffsets #greatbearrainforest #conservation #environmentalism #solarpunk #indulgences #karma #trees #rainforest #carbon #spiritbear #conservationarea #BC #BritishColumbia #IndigenousRights #GuardianWatchmen