Noam BergmanA review of 25 years of carbon offsets find they fail to cut emissions and #climatechange due to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve. COP29 raised hopes of change, but this did not solve the problem. We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale.
Guardian coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/carbon-offsets-fail-cut-global-heating-intractable-systemic-problems-study
Paper by Romm, Lezak and Alshamsi: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-environ-112823-064813
