2023-08-24 18:23:07
Published on August 24, 2023 at 8:23 p.m. Modified on August 24, 2023 at 8:23 PM.
There is something rotten in the jungle of carbon offsetting, worries a study published in Science. Far from keeping their climate promises, the carbon credits allocated on the basis of avoided deforestation in tropical regions would have been greatly overestimated: their real impact would be three times less significant than announced. A publication which supports the revelations, at the beginning of 2023, of a vast international investigation conducted by the Guardian.
Also read: Rainforest: Most carbon credits bought by companies ‘are worth nothing’
Carbon credits that do more harm than good for the climate
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