Research on a ‘portfolio approach’ to carbon removal enables firms to mix expensive tech-based solutions that inject carbon deep underground with lower-cost and currently more available nature-based ...

When Bill Gates, a self-proclaimed environmentalist, was confronted over his private jet carbon emissions, he deflected the issue, arguing that he offsets his emissions. He is not alone. From other ...

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 are under intense scrutiny, with recent reports from Amazon to Australia exposing some flaws, which may lead to doubts about their effectiveness and, therefore, distrust. This is made ...

As the impacts of climate change grow increasingly severe, more and more products and services are being marketed to travelers to help offset one’s carbon footprint. Among the most common is carbon ...

This week, governments, policy makers, business leaders and members of civil society will gather in Dubai for COP28, to discuss the progress towards the goals set out in the Paris agreement. There is ...

For the world to hit net zero, carbon removal is going to be essential—there’s simply no way to reverse humanity’s impact on the climate without extracting carbon from the air. The world currently has ...

A team of researchers has put forth a method that they say makes it possible to compare credits for carbon from forests projects against more permanent storage solutions. The carbon emissions that ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. April 29 - Climate action has become synonymous with the use of carbon offsets and similar schemes to compensate for ...

The aviation industry is facing a critical challenge: a shortage of airline carbon credits and there’s a very high probability that it’ll result in more expensive airfares. But what is a carbon offset ...

Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel out” their emissions. But they just pay companies to pollute, with little benefit to show for it. Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel ...