Most Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) forest carbon offset projects significantly overstate their climate benefits, according to a new study published in Science.

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

Carbon offsets have existed for decades, and the size of the voluntary carbon market has ballooned to about $2 billion. Many countries and countless companies, including giants like Amazon and FedEx, ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Flight offsets have frequently been accused of greenwash Mandatory CORSIA scheme to unlock unprecedented demand for ...

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

Ethical, responsible carbon offsets are a full-time job for Duke team Most people vaguely understand carbon offsets as the little check box on an airline reservation where a company promises to plant ...

Penn researchers jointly published a paper with academics at the University of Oxford that found the practice of carbon offsets inefficient. The paper — put out in the Annual Review of Environment and ...

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed. Danny Cullenward is a climate economist and ...

March 13 (Reuters) - Indian banks and non-bank finance companies (NBFCs) should consider setting up a common pool of bankable projects for climate-related financing, the country's central bank chief ...

Is the End Nigh for Carbon Cons? A story broke earlier this week concerning the bankruptcy filing of one of the largest carbon offset/credit trading start-ups in existence, Aspiration Partners, Inc.