[s9e21] Carbon Offsets 🔥 ⭐

Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world

The story concludes that while offsets could theoretically help, they are currently used as a tool for . They allow companies to avoid the more difficult task of actually cutting their own emissions at the source by simply throwing money at questionable projects. [S9E21] Carbon Offsets

: If a project doesn't provide additional benefits, the company buying the credit is technically still polluting without actually helping the environment, leading to a net increase in global emissions. Case Studies in "Phantom Credits" Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the

: Credits are often sold for protecting forests that weren't actually in danger of being cut down. Oliver mocks this as "paying someone not to do something they weren't going to do anyway." Case Studies in "Phantom Credits" : Credits are

Oliver's final take is a warning: the current system is essentially a "get out of jail free card" that prioritizes corporate PR over actual climate action. org/">Verra have responded to these criticisms?

Oliver centers the story on the concept of —the requirement that an offset project must only happen because of the carbon credit funding.