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Ethical carbon offsetting has a role to play in tackling the climate crisis
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George Monbiot makes important points about the role of nature-based solutions (Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it, 26 January). We need to preserve our natural forests,...
Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it
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There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab. We now know that it’s not enough to leave fossil...
Greta Thunberg leaves carbon offsetting meeting urging attendees to ‘stop greenwashing’ – video
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A video of Greta Thunberg leaving a meeting on improving the integrity of the voluntary carbon market has appeared from Cop26. As the climate activist leaves, Thunburg tells those in attendance to 'stop greenwashing'....
Cop26’s worst outcome would be giving the green light to carbon offsetting
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From the signing of the United Nations framework convention on climate change in 1992, to the first Conference of the Parties in 1995, to this week’s Cop26, we have heard many words from world leaders, but have not se...