The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle
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Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.
  • Ben Matthews
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    1 year ago

    It’s crashed and revived before, selling a feel-good drug that satisfies addictions to high-energy lifestyles, real-world impact was never the point.