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Carbon offset gold rush is distracting us from climate change

7 mins | Nov 29, 2019
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Why badly designed donation programmes often do little more than enable virtue signalling. Everyone from Easyjet to the Vatican is rushing to offset their carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits. However, Camilla Cavendish writing in the Financial Times in November 2019 highlights the problems with this approach.

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