Category Archives: Carbon credits

Murky World of Carbon Offsets Faces Greater Scrutiny

Draft standards drawn up by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market aim to tighten up a notoriously opaque sector.

Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.

Goodbye Glasgow: What’s Next for Global Climate Action?

After COP26, and as the debate on whether Glasgow represents a success or a failure dies down, what next for global climate action?

‘Net Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam

Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.

Amazon: Regrowing Forests Have Offset Less Than 10% of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation

Unless drastic changes are made to halt deforestation and encourage forests to regrow, the Amazon cannot fulfil its potential to mitigate climate change.

Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests

Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures

Sharks: The Ultimate Keystone Species?

Sharks, in a zeitgeist of top predator-worship and science triumphalism.

Soil Science, Climate Change, and Property

Our understanding of soil is changing fast with new science. But can soil science help prevent global warming? Or, if the problems are political, not scientific, what is the political barrier?

Carbon Taxes and Carbon Pricing Are Not Solutions to the Climate Crisis

A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.

AOC’s Green New Deal as Politics

Why AOC’s Select Committee for a Green Deal Deal would be an electoral winner.

Don’t Call It a Tax: Inside Washington’s Attempt to Pass a “Fee On Pollution”

After a decade of failed carbon taxes, Washington state is pushing to pass the country’s first “carbon fee.” Will this time be different?

Trump’s Carbon Capture Tax Break: Mechanical and Biological Paths

Looking at the potential benefit of tax subsidies for carbon capture.

That’s Not MY Greenhouse Gas!

Climate pacts like the Paris Accord do little because they focus on in-country greenhouse gas emissions, not ones based on consumption.

Trump EPA Pick: Scott Pruitt as EPA Head Signals Agency Will Ignore Climate Change

Nomination of Oklahoma State AG Scott Pruitt to head the EPA signals the intention to unwind Obama administration climate change policies.

Donald Trump’s Swamp: Meet Ten Potential Energy and Climate Cabinet Picks and the Pickers

Link-rich summary of backgrounds, connections and biases of ten possible picks for Trump’s climate and energy team, collected in one post.