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.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

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.

Talaraine@kbin.social · 1 year ago

I’m… not the brightest person in the world but the very first time I heard of companies buying carbon credits that would cure their pollution the alarm bells went off.

I guess the politicians that fall for this kind of crap put the ‘whale’ in whale phishing.

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.

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.

The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle