Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

Carbon offsets purport to save forests and “cancel out” climate pollution. Wildfires risk more emissions from what is already a greenwashing scam. Carbon offsets purport to save forests and “cancel ...

Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel out” their emissions. But they just pay companies to pollute, with little benefit to show for it. Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel ...

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

When Bill Gates, a self-proclaimed environmentalist, was confronted over his private jet carbon emissions, he deflected the issue, arguing that he offsets his emissions. He is not alone. From other ...

CU Boulder study shows that 96% of all carbon offset credits from U.S. forestry projects were issued for improved forest management practices, not tree planting or forest protection While cars, ...

Carbon offsets are under intense scrutiny, with recent reports from Amazon to Australia exposing some flaws, which may lead to doubts about their effectiveness and, therefore, distrust. This is made ...

As the impacts of climate change grow increasingly severe, more and more products and services are being marketed to travelers to help offset one’s carbon footprint. Among the most common is carbon ...

This week, governments, policy makers, business leaders and members of civil society will gather in Dubai for COP28, to discuss the progress towards the goals set out in the Paris agreement. There is ...

The world's major oil and gas companies claim they are leading the energy transition. They spend billions on PR to brand ...

Forests and other natural carbon reservoirs play an important role in slowing and potentially reversing the effects of climate change. But any carbon stored in nature is vulnerable to either natural ...