Dr Susi ArnottFeb 26
#Carbonoffsetting has long been a bad joke - with the 'miracle stoves' idea in particularly bad taste. (How many years old?)
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/02/26/uns-new-carbon-market-delivers-first-credits-through-myanmar-cookstove-project/
UN's new carbon market delivers first credits

A decade after Paris Agreement established the mechanism, its first set of credits has been approved - but concerns over legacy projects persist

Climate Home News
Science | The GuardianNov 7
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/07/net-zero-distracts-from-scientific-imperative-to-eliminate-fossil-fuels-cop30 #IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC) #Greenhousegasemissions #Globalclimatetalks #Carbonoffsetting #Climatecrisis #Environment #Fossilfuels #Worldnews #Cop30
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

The Guardian
Climate crisis | The GuardianNov 6
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/07/net-zero-distracts-from-scientific-imperative-to-eliminate-fossil-fuels-cop30 #IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC) #Greenhousegasemissions #Globalclimatetalks #Carbonoffsetting #Climatecrisis #Environment #Fossilfuels #Worldnews #Cop30
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

The Guardian
Opinion | The Guardian USNov 6
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/07/net-zero-distracts-from-scientific-imperative-to-eliminate-fossil-fuels-cop30 #IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC) #Greenhousegasemissions #Globalclimatetalks #Carbonoffsetting #Climatecrisis #Environment #Fossilfuels #Worldnews #Cop30
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

The Guardian
Climate crisis | The GuardianOct 8
Tour operator Intrepid drops carbon offsets and emissions targets https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/tour-operator-intrepid-drops-carbon-offsets-and-emissions-targets #Greenhousegasemissions #Carbonoffsetting #Travel&leisure #Australianews #Climatecrisis #Environment #Worldnews #Business #Travel
Tour operator Intrepid drops carbon offsets and emissions targets

Firm will instead invest A$2m a year in ‘climate impact fund’ supporting renewables and switching to EVs

The Guardian
Environment | The Guardian USOct 8
Tour operator Intrepid drops carbon offsets and emissions targets https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/tour-operator-intrepid-drops-carbon-offsets-and-emissions-targets #Greenhousegasemissions #Carbonoffsetting #Travel&leisure #Australianews #Climatecrisis #Environment #Worldnews #Business #Travel
Tour operator Intrepid drops carbon offsets and emissions targets

Firm will instead invest A$2m a year in ‘climate impact fund’ supporting renewables and switching to EVs

The Guardian
Climate crisis | The GuardianOct 6
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/carbon-offsets-fail-cut-global-heating-intractable-systemic-problems-study #Greenhousegasemissions #Carbonoffsetting #Treesandforests #Climatecrisis #Environment #Pollution
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

The Guardian
Environment | The Guardian USOct 6
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/carbon-offsets-fail-cut-global-heating-intractable-systemic-problems-study #Greenhousegasemissions #Carbonoffsetting #Treesandforests #Climatecrisis #Environment #Pollution
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

The Guardian
Yrjänä Rankka 🌻Aug 9, 2025
Going to have to take a flight to go celebrate my daughter getting her master’s degree. From what I’ve understood most #carbonoffsetting schemes - especially those offered by airlines - are failures at best, and pure #greenwashing at worst.
Here’s me turning to the hive mind for good, independently vetted, science-based, verifiably effective in the long-term, community-oriented schemes to help wash away my sins. #askfedi
Environment | The Guardian USAug 1, 2025
Are Labour’s plans to offset Heathrow expansion emissions all pie in the sky? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/01/labour-plans-offset-heathrow-expansion-emissions #Carboncaptureandstorage(CCS) #Greenhousegasemissions #Ethicalandgreenliving #Heathrowthirdrunway #Travelandtransport #Carbonoffsetting #Heathrowairport #Airlineindustry #Greenpolitics #Climatecrisis #Greeneconomy #Airtransport #Environment #Fossilfuels #Transport #Business #Politics #Labour #Energy #London #Travel
What will expanding Heathrow do to UK’s net zero plans?

Government is counting on tech to provide a panacea, but there may be simpler ways to keep climate goals on track

The Guardian