2024-07-09

To no surprise - carbon offsets are NOT real climate action.

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/07/03/carbon-offsets-are-undermining-real-climate-action/

WHY CARBON OFFSETTING UNDERMINES CLIMATE TARGETS

4. The climate funding gap will not be solved by offsetting    

3. There are only so many “quality” credits that could be used as offsets 

2. Carbon offsetting inherently lacks credibility 

1. Offsetting could delay climate action 

...  it is essential to understand that offsetting, at best, does not reduce the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere, it simply moves emission reductions from one place to another. The logic of offsetting is built on the idea that one entity gets to keep emitting.⁴ For this reason, offsetting often ends up providing the social license for high-emitting activities to continue while reinforcing past injustices. For instance, fossil fuel companies have claimed to be reducing emissions by investing in planting trees while increasing their production of coal, oil and gas.

Meanwhile, the ongoing psychopathic global ecocide continues - 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151841

Last month was the hottest June since records began and the thirteenth month in a row to set a temperature record, according to new data released on Monday from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

 

 

 

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