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 ...

While early blockchains relied on energy-intensive models, a new generation of ‘carbon negative’ projects is not just ...

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 purport to save forests and “cancel out” climate pollution. Wildfires risk more emissions from what is already a greenwashing scam. Carbon offsets purport to save forests and “cancel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Interest is soaring in how to reduce our carbon footprint. A range of activities affect the carbon footprint of individuals, from driving to work and flying overseas to heating and ...

Taylor Swift may not be the first person who comes to mind when you think about climate change. But more than once, the singer has found herself in the middle of a media storm over her carbon di­oxide ...