❌ These trends show how #CarbonOffsets risk reinforcing extractive and neo-colonial dynamics under the guise of climate solutions.
True #ClimateAction must protect land rights, centre community voices & prioritise real emissions reductions over #offsetting.
Read more 👇
www.somo.nl/carbon-the-n...
📜 One way governments try to cut regulatory burden is #offsetting: for every new rule, an old one (or more) must go.
🗺️ The map and table show which OECD countries have used these schemes.
👉 Can you spot your country?
(from Steinebach, Hinterleitner & Fernández-i-Marín doi.org/10.1111/puar...)
Something lovely for #FragmentFriday - an offset from a now detached medieval manuscript leaving a "ghost" negative image on the left board. It also features a comb lining made of cloth on which the offset is also present.
RB 15c, Venice, 1492
#fragmentology #offsetting
Carbon offsetting of fossil fuel emissions through afforestation is limited by financial viability and spatial requirements | Communications Earth & Environment #climatechange #globalwarming #fossil #fuel #carbon #offsetting #afforestation
🔓 : The role of #offsetting in city #climateaction is generally unclear and lacks detail, find Chappell et al. @ribesresearch.bsky.social
➡️ Many cities lack details on estimating residual emissions, defining an upper limit on offsets & ensuring environmental integrity
Read below ⬇️
Here it is, finally. The truth.
In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product
Labor failures include:
#NACC
#AUKUS
#EPBC
#NatureConservation
#EPA
#FossilFuel - support, approvals, subsidies
#ageban
#safeguardMechanisms
#offsetting
#Gambling
#domesticViolence
#palestine
#educationFunding
new @source-material.org & @theguardian.com investigation
Amazon, Google, Microsoft own 38 active datacentres in water scarce areas & 24 more under development.
They pledge to be “water positive” by 2030, by #offsetting water use.
Amazon own sustainability expert warns plans are “not ethical”.
I have been updating my #biodiversity #offsetting knowledge as I am constructing a new course guiding students to think about entrepreneurship in areas of (potentially) #regenerative economy
- this review was excellent!
More than two dozen scientists are urging the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) not to allow companies to use carbon #offsetting to meet their climate targets
Read more here 👇 @jamesgyke.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social
What we all need is to be honest about our emissions both direct and indirect. #Offsetting is especially misleading. I would prefer to see companies actual carbon footprint without the whitewash of offset. We need to focus on the source of our own emissions which is linked to consumption. #climate
This Valentine’s, show the planet you 💚💚💚 it
Websites Ahoy! uses 💚 green hosting 💚 for its websites where possible, and aims to more-than-offset our greenhouse gas emissions...
#ClimateBreakdown #Offsetting #ValentinesDay2025
www.linkedin.com/pulse/offset...
Finally, someone with a voice says it...
“What we need instead is a conversation about how corrupted, confused and contradictory environmental policy has become, and how little trust any of us have in government now.” @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
#Greenwash #Offsetting #Ecocide #Farming #Resilience
Participants discussed areas for future development and clarification, including incentives for adherence and addressing different emission types. Join the mail list if you'd like to get more info: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#Offsetting #NetZero
Cycling with 10 trees on my back
Collected our free trees as part of "Hertfordshire’s Your Tree, Our Future" scheme. 👏🏽🌳 I cycled to the pick up point. I think that's enough #offsetting for one day. Especially considering they nearly offset me from the bike #awkwardload
Check out the latest episode of the podcast, talking about #carbon #offsetting:
thedudeistjourney.podbean.com/e/031-carbon...
This is hugely significant. Already in 2019, when the university first set up a working party to address the #climate and environment emergency, there was scepticism about the real value of #offsetting. This clearly a disastrous fallacy.
The only truly meaningful action is #carbon reduction.
💡A more promising approaches to channelling funds to the Global South could be to directly address scope 3 emissions in companies' supply chains & climate contributions approach.
To read the full blog 🔗 bit.ly/NewClimate_O...
#offsetting #VCM #carboncredits
Breaking: despite IAPB claims to be against international #biodiversity #offsetting & secondary market trading, IAPB co-chairs just stated that they do not encourage it but claim to be powerless to prevent it. See our brief : 1/2 greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... #COP16Colombia #COP16
In reality we all know that credits and certificates are the same, and that they will be used for #offsetting, as stated several times by IAPB co-chair Sylvie Goulard. As for his statement that public funding will not be sufficient blabla, 2/4
IAPB co-chair Sylvie Goulard just confirmed that #biodiversity credits will be used for #offsetting "when regulation forces companies to offset their damages as is the case in France and Australia" 1/3
www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/cred...
why it is that our governments are STILL lying about the limits to growth and STILL promising people economic expansion they will NEVER see a dime of or the fact that we have now people IN THE #CLIMATE MOVEMENT who literally make $ from cooperating with the O&G industry for #offsetting BS,...
The #plastic offset credit uses the same false narrative, biased framing, discredited players as #carbon #offsetting, and has the same political goal: avoid at all costs legislation that would get in the way of plastic production doubling by 2050. #Pepsico #WprldBank
www.ftm.eu/articles/pla...
Interesting new foresight report by UNEP. Among many other issues it highlights misinformation, surging #fossil fuel subsidies, and corruption in carbon #offsetting www.unep.org/resources/gl...
📢 The science is clear: carbon #offsetting is not a reliable tool for tackling the climate crisis.
Today, 80+ civil society organisations are calling on climate target-setting bodies, incl. Science-based Targets initiative, to stick to science.
Our joint statement 🔗 newclimate.org/news/joint-s...
204 investors backed a UN initiative on "nature stewardship" that includes adopting sustainable practices in line with the UN’s Land Degradation Neutrality Principles, aka #biodiversity #offsetting.
#reputationalrisk #legalliability
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Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft gerät zunehmend in den Fokus - auch bei Investoren.
Bei den Impact Days wurde viel über Sinn und Unsinn von #Biodiversity #Offsetting, über Biodiversity Credits und Biodiversity as a Service gesprochen.
#TogetherInImpact #ID24
#GemeinsamSchnellerUmsetzen
and #offset vs “contributions to improving nature". The range of options considered & the weak justifications given for including #offsetting are not neutral, suggest the IAPB has a clear idea of the type of mkt it wants to promote: an intl compliance biodiversity offset mkt 2/3
Listen to Oxford Offsetting Principles co-author Injy Johnstone highlight the importance of #offsetting, #carbonmarkets and how the Principles guidance is crucial to #climatemitigation
youtube.com/shorts/6-HHB...
#climatesky #greensky
