Climate Coalition wants to shut down one of the [fake] #EscapeRoutes of the industry to keep going as usual.
"Climate Coalition Says 'Stop Carbon Offsetting Now!'"
by Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/carbon-offsetting
Quotes:
"Throughout 2023, academic research, media, and civil society investigations have exposed how these projects routinely generate phantom offsets and result in land grabbing and human and Indigenous rights violations,"
"At COP28, world leaders and climate negotiators need to recognize once and for all that carbon markets are a failed source of climate finance. They are volatile and unstable, marked by fraud, incapable of reducing emissions, and actually harm communities," Oakland Institute executive director Anuradha Mittal said Monday.