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2023/10 Banking on Offsets? A Brief Due Diligence
2007/1 When Being Green Raises the Heat
2008/1 F.T.C. Asks if Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent
2008/2 Carbon Offsets, Consumer Protection, and the FTC (Part 2)
2008/2 What's the FTC got to do with carbon offsets?
2008/4 The Benefits and Drawbacks of Carbon Offsets
2009/2 Why We Need Self-Regulation to Make Offsets Truly Green
2011/4 FTSE 100 Firms Offset 0.1% of Carbon · Environmental Management & Sustainability News · Environmental Leader
2011/9 Complete guide to carbon offsetting
2011/9 Offsets Involve Double-Counting
2012/10 FTC Issues Revised "Green Guides"
2013/4 California's International Carbon Trading Linkages - real or imaginary
2013/5 Why California should not be allowed to outsource hot air
2013/7 California’s Market for Hard-to-Verify Carbon Offsets Could Let Industry Pollute as Usual
2013/10 International Carbon Offsets in EU Climate Legislation – Time to say Good-bye?
2013/11 A Flaw in California's Cap-and-Trade plan
2014/2 The Environmental Legacy of the Sochi Olympics
2014/8 Carbon offsets - Who should you trust?
2015/8 The market for voluntary offsetting is growing, but needs more transparency
2017/3 Can Carbon Offsets Work?
2019/5 ProPublica's Inexcusable REDD+ Belly Flop
2019/5 What ProPublica’s forest carbon credits story gets wrong – and right
2020/1 Buying Carbon Offsets Isn't Cheating
2020/1 Carbon Offsets Really Can Reduce Greenhouse Gases In The Atmosphere
2020/1 Offsetting carbon emissions is soaring in air travel - but is it effective?
2020/4 Is carbon sequestration on farms actually working to fight climate change?
2020/5 These 4 Arguments Can’t Overcome the Facts About Carbon Offsets for Forest Preservation
2020/8 Why ‘Carbon Offsets’ Don’t Do All That They Promise
2020/12 Carbon offsets aren’t working, and probably can’t
2020/12 Expanding Offset Markets? Great Idea or Willful Blindness? - GHG and Carbon Accounting, Auditing, Management & Training
2021/1 Companies Are Clamoring for Carbon Credits, But the System is Rife with Issues
2021/4 Only a few carbon projects meet basic criteria for climate integrity, human rights and more
2021/4 The math isn’t adding up on forests and CO2 reductions
2021/5 Determining a True Carbon Benefit
2021/5 Does Planting Trees Really Offset Carbon?
2021/9 Carbon offsets are growing fast, but climate benefits remain murky
2021/11 How to Repair the World’s Broken Carbon Offset Markets
2023/3 Comment: Let’s use the lessons of carbon offsets to build a robust and just system to value nature
2023/8 A giant Oregon wildfire shows the limits of carbon offsets in fighting climate change
2019/8 Whoops! California’s carbon offsets program could extend the life of coal mines.
Carbon Offsets TOC
I - BusinessOffsetStrategies
I - CarbonInsetAccounting
I - CarbonNeutrality
I - CarbonOffsetAlternatives
I - CarbonOffsetCritiques
I - CarbonOffsetPrices
I - CarbonOffsetsasGreenwishing
I - CarbonOffsetsinCorporateBranding
I - CarbonOffsetsinPolicy
I - CarbonOffsetSupply
I - CarbonOffsetTypes
I - CommonAdditionalityDetours
I - EnvironmentalAdditionality
I - EnvironmentalIntegrity
I - EvaluatingOffsetAdditionality
I - FinancialAdditionality
I - KeyOffsetPrinciples
I - MarketMechanisms (Deep Dive)
I - OffsetAdditionality
I - OffsetCobenefits
I - OffsetDesign
I - OffsetIntegrity
I - OffsetMarkets
I - OffsetPricing
I - OffsetProjects
I - OffsetProtocols
I - OffsetProviders
I - Offsets
I - OffsetScoringvsTesting
I - OffsetStandards
I - OffsettingEvents
I - RegulatoryAdditionality
I - RemovalsvsReductions
I - ScoringCarbonOffsets
I - Type1vsType2ErrorinAdditionalityTesting
I - VoluntaryOffsetMarkets
S - Carbon Offset Sources (General)
S - Additionality of Offsets
S - Business Use of Offsets
S - Carbon Markets
S - Carbon Neutrality
S - CDM Clean Development Mechanism
S - Compliance Offset Markets
S - Evaluating the CDM
S - Forestry Offsets
S - Offset Design
S - Offset Evaluations/Critiques
S - Offset Guides
S - Offset Leakage
S - Offset Permanence
S - Offset Projects
S - Offset Standards
S - Offset Strategies
S - Offset Supplies and Costs
S - Offset Types
S - Offsets as Aviation Mitigation Strategy
S - Offsets in Policy
S - REDD and REDD+
S - Sector-Based Offsets
S - The Offsets Business
S - Voluntary Carbon Offset Markets
N - Aviation Offsets
N - Carbon Markets
N - Carbon Neutrality
N - Carbon Offset Critiques
N - Carbon Offset Defenses
N - Carbon Offsets Round 2
N - Corporate Offset Commitments
N - Evaluating Carbon Offsets
N - Green Power Purchasing
N - Keystone pipeline and offsets
N - Land Use Offsets
N - Pitching Carbon Offsets
N - REDD and REDD+
N - The Business of Offsets
N - Using Carbon Offsets
N - Voluntary RECs as Offsets
T - Carbon Offset Networks
T - Carbon Offset Providers
T - Offset Individuals
T - Offset Projects
T - Offset Protocols
T - Offset Standards
V - Carbon Trading and Offsets
V - Market mechanisms
E - Carbon Offset Knowledgebase
E - Carbon Neutrality
E - Evaluating Carbon Offsets
E - Land Use Based Offsets
E - Offset Additionality
E - Offset Criteria
E - Offset Critiques
E - Offset Standard Effectiveness
E - Voluntary Offsets and Markets
E - Voluntary RECs
N - Carbon Offsets News and Opinion
N - Article 6 Offsets
N - Aviation Offsets
N - Carbon Neutrality
N - Carbon Offset Critiques
N - Carbon Offset Defenses
N - Carbon Offsets Round 2
N - Corporate Offset Commitments
N - Evaluating Carbon Offsets
N - Keystone pipeline and offsets
N - Land Use Offsets
N - Offset Tokenization
N - Pitching Carbon Offsets
N - REDD and REDD+
N - The Business of Offsets
N - Using Carbon Offsets
N - Voluntary RECs as Offsets
2019/10 Air France to proactively offset 100% of CO2 emissions on its domestic flights as of January 1st, 2020
2022/12 Carbon credits for oil companies?
2008/1 Mbaracay: Lessons in Avoiding Deforestation
2010/4 Carbon Dioxide at $800 per Ton in Boulder
2013/3 BC And The Baseline Brouhaha Part One: Dissecting The Darkwoods Documents
2013/3 Canadian Carbon Audit Report Delayed Amid Charges Of Bias And Overreach
2013/4 Documents Back Nature Conservancy Over BC Auditor General On Darkwoods
2013/5 Facts On Ground Contradict BC Auditor General
2013/11 BC Carbon Offset Program to be Folded into Climate Action Secretariat as Pacific Carbon Trust Winds Down
2014/4 South African carbon tax will allow companies to offset emissions
2014/6 Texas Cash-From-Carbon Program Lures Climate Skeptics
2014/9 Of Jenga Towers and Environmental Offsets
2015/1 The Hack That Warmed the World
2015/3 Far-reaching decision: appeals court finds carbon offsets ensure integrity
2015/11 COP21: Paris closes road system in emissions offset gesture
2015/12 Microsoft buys carbon credits in forest near Mount Rainier to offset pollution
2016/1 Company Behind Methane Leak Is Ordered to Offset the Climate Damage
2016/1 People who traveled to the Paris climate summit can offset their carbon emissions — but it isn't easy
2016/1 Why the NHL is getting involved in climate-change efforts
2016/3 Offset Sellers Learning To Appreciate Small Buyers
2016/6 Colorado's Home-Grown Voluntary Carbon Offset Program Now Gets Home-Grown Management
2016/6 Corporate Offset Purchase Programs A Primer
2016/8 Considerations for Offset Buyers A Primer
2016/8 Why Do Carbon Prices Vary By Project Type?
2016/9 Can you really offset the carbon dioxide you put in the atmosphere?
2016/9 Offsetting: Success in projects, failure of communication
2016/10 Larry Lohmann: "The problem is not 'bad baselines' but the concept of counterfactual baselines itself"
2016/10 What’s cool about Cool Effect carbon reductions?
2017/1 Amid Doubts over Buyers US Non-Profit Prepares Offset Guarantees
2017/2 AiraLab and Microsoft Russia to start blockchain platform for carbon credit trading
2017/3 American Carbon Registry Approves Methodology for Landfill Gas Destruction and Beneficial Use
2017/5 Chugach Alaska Corporation Sells Carbon Credits to California
2017/5 The Wrong End of the Stick | Scorcher
2017/6 How Do You Offset 6 Million Tonnes of Carbon? One At A Time
2017/6 Offset integrity already debated in California
2017/6 U.S. Rice Farmers Turn Sustainability into Carbon Credits, with Microsoft as First Buyer
2017/7 The full life cycle of a voluntary carbon project
2017/8 A Missed Opportunity in California’s Climate ‘Victory’
2017/8 Carbon Offsets Really Do Help Lower Emissions
2017/8 Why travel giant Expedia paid a premium for these carbon offsets
2017/8 With Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty, Expedia combats economic inequality and climate change
2017/10 The world’s first “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland—turning carbon dioxide into stone — Quartz
2017/11 A Giving Tuesday Chat w/ Cool Effect
2017/11 Cool Effect Carbon Projects Capture the Imagination, While Improving Lives
2017/11 Cool Effect Rolls Out Its Holiday Gift Packs
2017/11 Cool Effect's Smart Vision of How to Improve the Planet
2017/11 Why Purchasing Voluntary Carbon Offsets is a 'Good Buy'
2017/12 How Individuals Move the Needle by Buying on Voluntary Carbon Markets
2018/1 Farmland could be used to sustainably offset America's entire carbon footprint—if the will exists — Quartz
2018/6 This carbon removal marketplace will make buying offsets easier
2018/7 Carbon Offsets for a Sustainable Future
2018/7 Largest US Reforestation Carbon Credit Issuance – Press Releases on CSRwire.com
2018/7 New Market Opportunity Funds Grassland Conservation as a Carbon Sink
2018/7 The market for grassland carbon credits is on the rise. Here’s why.
2018/7 Z Energy and Permanent Forests in carbon credit partnership
2018/8 Record-high supply and demand on voluntary carbon markets in 2017, says study
2018/8 UN Climate Change ad criticised
2018/9 Norway Seeks to Offset Its Pollution 12 Years Before Needed
2019/1 Some Suggested Principles for Individual Carbon Offsets
2019/2 What Carbon Offsets Would be Required for a Fleet of 15 Cars?
2019/3 Opinion: If you are flying, you should be buying carbon offsets
2019/4 On Earth Day, Delta offsets most carbon emissions in single day for over 300K customers
2019/4 Shell will spend $300 million to offset carbon emissions. Here’s the catch
2019/5 Doconomy launches credit card with a carbon-emission spending limit
2019/5 RightShip and South Pole deliver first reported entirely carbon offset iron ore shipment for Anglo American
2019/6 Are Trees Getting Too Much Climate Credit…or Not Enough?
2019/6 California Legislators Urge Caution, but Greenlight a Plan That Could Lead to the Widespread Use of Forestry Offsets
2019/6 Carbon offsets are not our get-out-of-jail free card
2019/6 United Nations Agency Criticizes Carbon Offsets
2019/7 An Introduction to Forest Carbon Offset Markets
2019/7 How to Buy Carbon Offsets
2019/8 Carbon Offsets are Dominating Headlines – Here’s what you need to know
2019/8 Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
2019/8 Greta and Flight Shaming are Fueling a Carbon Offsets Boom
2019/8 Harry and Meghan tried, but can we really make our flights carbon neutral?
2019/8 Once-Unpopular Carbon Credits Emerge as One of the World’s Best Investments
2019/8 What happened to that vacation offset? – Shell Climate Change
2019/8 Why I Purchased 56 Carbon Offsets
2019/8 You can now pay to turn your carbon emissions to stone
2019/9 WILL announces 3 million carbon offsets released for sale
2019/10 Shell commits £10m to offset emissions from customer fuel purchases in UK
2019/10 Shell launches carbon offsetting scheme for fuel card customers
2019/11 'Greta Thunberg effect' driving growth in carbon offsetting
2019/11 Carbon offsets are all the rage again. But can they be used to raise global climate ambitions?
2019/12 Burping Cows Get the Green Light to Join Carbon-Offset Market
2020/1 Do Carbon Offsets Really Work? It Depends on the Details
2020/1 Fintech firm Mogo launching prepaid Visa with automatic carbon offsets
2020/1 In The Big Chair - Justin Francis of Responsible Travel
2020/1 Mastercard and Partners Launch Priceless Planet Coalition to Act on Climate Change
2020/1 The basis for new international carbon markets
2020/1 Wren, A Y Combinator Carbon Offset Startup, Raises $1.5M From Union Square Ventures And Paul Graham To Empower Individuals Building A Greener Planet
2020/2 Can you really negate your carbon emissions? Carbon offsets, explained
2020/2 The Truth about Carbon Offsets
2020/2 What is Carbon Offsetting, and Can it Save the Planet?
2020/2 Why carbon neutral is the new must-have mantra for banks
2020/3 Shades of REDD+: The Right to Carbon, the Right to Land, the Right to Decide
2020/3 Unterstanding Carbon Offsets – anja kollmuss
2020/3 Want To Understand Carbon Credits? Read This
2020/4 Should carbon offsets only include removing CO2 from the atmosphere?
2020/4 The Big Business (and Cheap Thrill) of Personal Carbon Credits
2020/4 Will carbon offsetting boom after COVID-19?
2020/5 Carbon Offsets: A Field Guide to Shopify’s Selection Process
2020/5 Carbon offsetting is essential to tackling climate change
2020/5 Carbon offsetting: coronavirus and beyond
2020/5 Is This Time Different?
2020/5 Stripe picks $1 million in carbon-removal projects to spur industry
2020/5 Stripe's first negative emissions purchases
2020/5 The BeZero Carbon Ratings Framework In Action: A Deep Dive Into Renewables
2020/6 Amazon Starts $2 Billion VC Fund to Combat Climate Change
2020/6 Delay to climate talks deepens uncertainty over future of carbon markets
2020/7 Carbon Credits Have a Double-Spend Problem. This Microsoft-Backed Project Is Trying to Fix It
2020/7 Global carbon offsets market facing 'watershed moment': Gold Standard
2020/8 ‘Super-Pollutant’ Emitted by 11 Chinese Chemical Plants Could Equal a Climate Catastrophe
2020/8 Bayer sets up carbon sequestration market for farmers
2020/8 Can offsets pave the way for ambitious compliance carbon schemes?
2020/8 Is the boom in carbon offsetting enough?
2020/8 Shell Australia to buy land-use carbon offsets company
2020/9 BOE's Carney Launches Global Taskforce to Boost Voluntary Carbon
2020/9 Carbon offset market progresses during coronavirus
2020/9 Carbon offsets burning
2020/9 Could Mycelium Help Resolve Our Climate Crisis?
2020/9 How can offsets help the global transition to net-zero in 2050?
2020/9 How to Raise Ambition Through Carbon Offsetting? Lessons learned and post-2020 prospects
2020/9 Mark Carney launches drive to develop global market for CO2 offsets
2020/9 Oxford launches new principles for credible carbon offsetting
2020/10 A “credible” carbon offsetting market is being set up, led by former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney
2020/10 Farmers Edge and Radicle offer hi-tech carbon credit program
2020/10 Mark Carney oversees blueprint for scaling up carbon market as offset demand soars
2020/10 Mark Carney says carbon offset market has become imperative to help achieve net-zero emissions
2020/10 Michigan officials look to state forests as an offset for carbon emissions
2020/10 Peru and Switzerland sign 'world first' carbon offset deal under Paris Agreement
2020/11 6 differences between forestry and soil carbon offsets
2020/11 10 myths about net zero targets and carbon offsetting, busted
2020/11 Carbon markets lure farmers but are benefits enough to hook them?
2020/11 How are businesses avoiding greenwashing on the road to net-zero?
2020/12 Agriculture Industry Bets on Carbon as a New Cash Crop
2020/12 BP Acquires Majority Stake in Largest US Forest Carbon Offset Developer Finite Carbon
2020/12 Selected Carbon Credits Surge by One Third During Coronaviris Pandemic
2020/12 Shades of REDD+ - Pruning Expectations of Corporate Offsetting with REDD+
2020/12 Soil carbon market could grow quickly globally
2020/12 Spanish startup Reforestum secures €750k to help offset carbon footprints
2020/12 The merits of a global carbon offset market
2020/12 The Nature Conservancy's fake forest offsets
2020/12 Want to offset your carbon footprint Heres what you need to know
2021/1 Carbon Offsets That Companies Are Gobbling Up Get a Futures Contract
2021/1 Carney Taskforce Looks to Boost Global Carbon Offset Market
2021/1 Digital tech helps farmers make money with carbon credits
2021/1 Do it prove it sell it My evolving views on carbon accounting
2021/1 Finding a Solution for Global Carbon Offsets Pricing
2021/1 Global demand for carbon offsets to combat emissions is growing
2021/1 Green groups call on Carney to raise concerns over carbon offsetting blueprint
2021/1 Guest view: Voluntary carbon markets carry risks
2021/1 Messy Carbon Offsets Show Markets Aren’t Always the Answer
2021/1 Messy Carbon Offsets Show Markets Aren’t Always the Answer
2021/1 Offsets Can Play a Role to Make Companies "Carbon Responsible"
2021/1 Olive is the new green in fighting climate change
2021/1 There is a lot of money on the table with carbon markets. But farmers are skeptical.
2021/2 Mark Carney’s Brookfield Net-Zero Claim Confounds Climate Experts
2021/2 TEAM CERTIFIED NET ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT – Mahindra Racing
2021/2 The Batman and Robin of Decarbonisation: Carbon Allowances and Carbon Offsets
2021/3 Big Oil’s Net-Zero Plans Show the Hard Limits of Carbon Offsets
2021/3 Blue Carbon — The New Wave of High Quality Offsets?
2021/3 Carbon offsetting: should you do it?
2021/3 Not Adding Up: Renewables-based carbon credits
2021/3 Shopify Purchases More Direct Air Capture (DAC) Carbon Removal Than Any Other Company
2021/3 The carbon offset API developer Patch confirms a $4.5 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz
2021/3 Timber CEO Wants to Reform Flawed Carbon-Offset Market
2021/4 Afforestation in Central Asia: An Analysis of Kazakhstan’s Potential as a Carbon Market
2021/4 AirCarbon Exchange launches nature-based offsets contract, as rival sees its own first trade
2021/4 As concerns rise over forest carbon offsets, Pachama’s verified offset marketplace gets $15 million
2021/4 C-Quest Capital signs 60 million mt carbon credit deal with Shell
2021/4 Clean crude? Oil firms use offsets to claim green barrels
2021/4 Criticism of carbon offsets doesn't acknowledge changes to how projects are approved, monitored
2021/4 Gold Standard creates tool to cut cost of carbon offset impact reporting
2021/4 Gov’t says has signed letter of intent to sell carbon credits
2021/4 How to scale up blue-carbon projects
2021/4 In defence of effective carbon offsetting
2021/4 Lundin sells its first 'carbon neutral' oil as climate activism grows
2021/4 Mark Carney's big stumble at Brookfield intensifies focus on net-zero emissions claims
2021/4 Mastercard-powered NFTs will help consumers offset carbon ‘down to a cup of coffee’
2021/4 There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
2021/4 There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
2021/4 Why Are So Many Companies Embracing Carbon Offsetting?
2021/4 Why we can’t dismiss carbon offsetting in a climate crisis
2021/5 AES Announces First of its Kind Agreement to Supply 24/7 Carbon Free Energy for Google Data Centers
2021/5 Cap and confiscate: Now anyone can buy and lock up pollution permits
2021/5 Carbon credits Seeing the wood for the treeds
2021/5 Carbon offsets prove risky business for net zero targets
2021/5 Carbon offsetting goes mainstream as producers set sights on net-zero
2021/5 Cardamoms National Park Achieves Sustainable Financing from REDD+ Carbon Offsets
2021/5 CCER volumes nearly double in April as net zero drives demand for China’s cheapest, oldest credits « Carbon Pulse
2021/5 Forest carbon auction? The what, why, and how of SilviaTerra’s Natural Capital Exchange launch
2021/5 Private Aviation Embraces Carbon-Offset Programs and Sustainable Fuel – Robb Report
2021/5 Stripe commits $8M to six new carbon removal companies
2021/5 The Best Carbon Offset Programs for 2021
2021/5 The role of data science
2021/5 What is carbon offsetting and how does it work?
2021/6 Carbon Offsets: New $100 Billion Market Faces Disputes Over Trading Rules
2021/6 Our Commitment to Carbon Credits and the Path to Net Zero
2021/6 Platts Launches Nature-Based Carbon Credit Assessments
2021/6 Premium data for carbon offsetting
2021/6 Rethinking Forest Carbon Offsets
2021/6 When Did Environmentalists Stop Hugging Trees?
2021/6 Why Are Companies Investing in Non-Verified Carbon Offsets?
2021/7 A buyer’s guide to soil carbon offsets
2021/7 Bootleg Fire is burning up carbon offsets
2021/7 CIBC, Itaú, NAB and NatWest Group launch carbon offset platform to drive transparency in Voluntary Carbon Market
2021/7 Digging the dirt on ag carbon credits
2021/7 Environmentalists cast doubt on carbon offsets
2021/7 Western Wildfires Are Sending Carbon Offsets Up in Smoke
2021/8 A Booming Crypto Platform Makes its First Foray into Climate Funding
2021/8 Carbon Offset Deal Helps Michigan Cash In on Its Trees—by Not Cutting Them Down
2021/8 Climate Bill Boosting Growers’ Carbon Credits Hits House Hurdles
2021/8 Corteva, Indigo Ag team up on carbon credit program for U.S. farmers| Article [AMP]| Reuters
2021/8 Demystifying farm carbon offsetting: three watch-outs for farmers
2021/8 New partnership with UN aviation agency to provide insights on carbon offsetting marketPress Release
2021/8 The New Market For Carbon Offsets
2021/8 US forest fires threaten carbon offsets as company-linked trees burn
2021/10 Australian carbon offset prices hit record high in polluters' spree
2021/10 Staying true to the Paris Agreement could hobble booming carbon offset market
2021/10 The Concept Of Additionality In The Voluntary Carbon Market, Explained
2021/10 Wall Street Firm Makes Wager on Carbon-Offset Forests
2021/11 As We Push to Decarbonize, Offsets Can Still Play a Role
2021/12 The price of Australian carbon credits is soaring — but that's not necessarily a good thing
2021/12 What a Year’s Worth of Offsets Look Like in Action: 2021 Portfolio Review
2023/5 Introducing Carbon Credit Analytics
2024/5 US to Outline Vision for Carbon Offsets Dogged by Controversy
2015/11 The Problem With REDD+
2018/8 New UNFCCC video "Keep calm and offset". Or how we will lose the fight against climate chaos
2019/10 The Word Nobody Wanted to Say at the UN Climate Action Summit
2020/1 JetBlue embarks on journey to offset all U.S. domestic flights
2020/2 Conserving and restoring forests won’t be cheap and easy after all
2020/2 Delta And The World Need Carbon Offsets To Stop Global Warming
2020/2 Why Airlines Need Carbon Credits
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