#offsets — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #offsets, aggregated by home.social.
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I started exploring #offset to find a meaningful counterbalance for the #emissions I haven't cut. Once I explored #carbon #offsets, I was disappointed at the number of problems that have been identified and studies for decades now. Read more...
#climateaction #climate
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Wood harvesting and forest management are depleting carbon storage. Old-growth forests in Sweden store ~72% more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.
The top meter of soils in lowland primary forests contained roughly 64% of total C on average.
Didac Pascual et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz8554
#carbon #carbonSinks #deforestation #timber #emissions #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forestry #offsets
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Wood harvesting and forest management are depleting carbon storage. Old-growth forests in Sweden store ~72% more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.
The top meter of soils in lowland primary forests contained roughly 64% of total C on average.
Didac Pascual et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz8554
#carbon #carbonSinks #deforestation #timber #emissions #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forestry #offsets
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Wood harvesting and forest management are depleting carbon storage. Old-growth forests in Sweden store ~72% more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.
The top meter of soils in lowland primary forests contained roughly 64% of total C on average.
Didac Pascual et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz8554
#carbon #carbonSinks #deforestation #timber #emissions #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forestry #offsets
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Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵 #carbon #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #policySky
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Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵
#assets #assetStranding #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits #carbon
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"The cause of climate change is the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels. But instead of focusing on the fundamental root cause, we’ve been focused on the interim product, emissions.
"But what I show in the book is that managing tons is an extremely narrow and technical understanding of the problem of climate change."Jessica Green: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-big-flaw-in-climate-policy-were-trying-to-solve-the-wrong-problem/
#assets #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits
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The so called "Environment Protection Reform Bill."
Protecting Australia's extraordinary wildlife ?"The proposed changes to the EPBC Act do not deal with its fundamental problem: despite its name, the law does not prioritise protecting the environment. Its principle role is to allow projects – including fossil fuel developments – to go ahead, with some conditions attached to limit environmental damage."
"Native forest logging overseen by the states has been effectively exempt, despite a long list of legal cases in which it was found to have breached the laws. Forest destruction on private land for agriculture – a major driver of biodiversity loss across vast areas of western New South Wales and Queensland, and the Northern Territory – has rarely been assessed."
"There is little sign the legislation will tackle the huge problem of deforestation. Millions of hectares have been cleared without federal oversight, mostly for industrial farming. The state of the environment report cited evidence that 93% of the threatened species habitat cleared between 2000 and 2017 was not referred for assessment under national law. One hundred scientists wrote to Albanese this week calling for this to be urgently addressed."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/25/as-the-coalition-shows-its-colours-on-nature-labor-faces-a-question-will-it-really-protect-australias-wildlife
#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #EPBCAct #CoalGas #deforestation #acceleration #offsets #NSWLogging -
"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."
"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-new-right-centre-left-technocratic
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change -
"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."
"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-new-right-centre-left-technocratic
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change -
"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."
"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-new-right-centre-left-technocratic
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change -
"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."
"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-new-right-centre-left-technocratic
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change -
"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."
"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-new-right-centre-left-technocratic
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change -
CW: Carbon offsets
#Carbon #offsets are intended "to move emission reductions around. Corporations and governments buy offsets as a cheaper alternative to cutting their own emissions. But emissions need to be cut to near zero, and so ALL emission reduction opportunities need to be exploited — and quickly — and not traded off against one another."
#credits #abatments #coal #CTC #COP29 #emissions #transition #energyTransition #energy #plants #GHG #phaseouts
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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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Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds
"Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions as promised."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/australias-carbon-credits-system-a-failure-on-global-scale-study-findsAustralian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon offset projects have limited impact on changes in woody vegetation cover and carbon removals (study)
"Effective offset schemes require constant scrutiny and critical assessment, including from third parties. This cannot be provided without the public release of all information that is necessary for the proper evaluation of the performance and integrity of offset projects."
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01313-x
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #offsets #transparency #integrity #regeneration #Australia #ParisAgreement #InternationalMitigation #obligation #CarbonOffset #NativeForests #LandManagement #HumanInducedRegeneration #HIR #pollution -
The NSW biodiversity credits market
"NSW pricing watchdog recommends overhaul of biodiversity offsets scheme. Tribunal found developers were paying into fund five times faster than the Biodiversity Conservation Trust was able to find required offsets."
"The report said a submission the tribunal received from the Independent Commission Against Corruption noted “inadequate governance arrangements undermine confidence and introduce the risk of corruption”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/19/nsw-pricing-watchdog-recommends-overhaul-of-biodiversity-offsets-scheme
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Fix Australia’s broken environmental laws to stop the rapid loss of nature
"Labor warned to clamp down on biodiversity offsets in environment law overhaul."
"The Australian government should significantly constrain the use of biodiversity offsets under its environmental law reform agenda and stop them being used for critically endangered wildlife, according to a report by a partnership of 11 universities."
"It recommended that offsets focused on restoring and creating new habitat and so-called “averted loss” offsets – which involve protecting existing habitat – be abolished."
“We know that the existing system has relied heavily on biodiversity offsets, and that this has failed to stem the destruction of nature in Australia."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/13/stop-the-rapid-loss-of-nature-labor-warned-to-clamp-down-on-biodiversity-offsets-in-environment-law-
#biodiversity #offsets #DoubleDipping #EnvironmentLaw #30x30 #NaturePositive #NatureRepair #law #destruction #ecosystems -
"Conservation groups challenge Labor over ‘lack of urgency’ on environment laws. Australia’s major conservation organisations have taken the Albanese government to task over what they say is a lack of urgency on environmental reform."
"The letter, signed by nine groups from the Places You Love alliance, including WWF Australia, the Australian Conservation Foundation, BirdLife Australia and the Wilderness Society, was sent a few weeks before the government announced it would selectively consult key stakeholders and experts instead of releasing draft legislation for public consultation before the end of the year."
Reforms "include a proposal that would give the environment minister powers to override a proposed decision from a new independent environment protection agency (EPA) and another that would allow developers to pay money into a fund rather than identify direct offsets to compensate for the destruction of habitat caused by their projects."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/24/conservation-groups-challenge-labor-over-lack-of-urgency-on-environment-laws
#Law #EPBC #Biodiversity #conservation #PlacesYouLove #EPA #PYL #PublicConsultation #consultation #NatureRepair #NatureRepairMarket #offsets #destruction #ExtinctionCrisis -
Offsetting- A cheap illusion of climate action
Forest conservation carbon offsets being significantly overestimated, new study finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-08-25/forest-conservation-carbon-offsets-overestimated/102755212
#Offsetting schemes #deforestation #degradation #REDD+ #Climate #Verra #CarbonStandardCredits #forest #offsets #logging #Australia #illusion #ClimateAction -
It's okay that we made the koala extinct, because we doubled the number of wombats.
#offsets #fungibility #economics #ecology #GreenCapitalism #greencapitalism #environment #auspol -
#Verra update:
"The world’s leading #CarbonCredit certifier – used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations for #climate claims – has said it will phase out and replace its rainforest #offsets programme by mid-2025 after a Guardian investigation found it was flawed."
#greenwashing #emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/10/biggest-carbon-credit-certifier-replace-rainforest-offsets-scheme-verra-aoe