WLT response to “Are carbon offsets fixable”?
A recently published paper “Are Carbon Offset Fixable?” out of Oxford University has once again called into question the effectiveness of carbon offsetting in the context of reducing atmospheric carbon levels at a global scale. The review paper, which looked at 25 years of evidence, discusses common issues with carbon credit schemes such as difficulties in properly quantifying the amount of carbon offset by projects, which the paper states can lead to over-estimating, double counting, and permanence.
