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Do carbon offsets live up to their promise?

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In theory, the idea is simple. The consumer pays a third party to remove a quantity of carbon (in the form of a greenhouse gas) equal to what he or she emits. But how voluntary carbon offsets actually work is unclear at best, and potentially fraudulent at worst, say experts.

The problem: No current certification or monitoring system has any teeth, and there is no easy way to confirm that offsetting companies are doing what they promise. Now, various organizations are scrambling to provide standards for what experts call a fragmented market with a product of drastically varying quality.
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2 responses // Do carbon offsets live up to their promise?

  • Carbon offsets are suspicious to me. It's like saying to someone, "My activity is going to cause smoke and soot to pour into your house, but it's okay because I'm paying a thousand dollars for another company to NOT pour smoke and soot into someone ELSE'S house."

    A bait-and-switch tactic. I say: THUMBS DOWN.
    Julie_Soller
  • Yes another great con is about to join the climate change greed bandwagon...İt is ok to have some crap coming from you..its natural and there is a natural organic process that takes away all the nasty stuff for us..so everything in moderation please..but maybe the tyre burning sliders could give it a rest with all that excess cool smoke pollution they are giving out..chill out guys can you really afford to burn up that much rubber and want to breathe in the results?
    mcwally

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