silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 days agoShell greenwashed gas using "phantom" carbon credits | Shell used rice-farming offsets for “carbon neutral” LNG campaign – but farmers and local authorities said no project activities took placewww.climatechangenews.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down10
arrow-up1147arrow-down1external-linkShell greenwashed gas using "phantom" carbon credits | Shell used rice-farming offsets for “carbon neutral” LNG campaign – but farmers and local authorities said no project activities took placewww.climatechangenews.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 days agoThe problem is that something like 90% of the offsets are fake like this, and of the remaining ones, another 90% have a mismatch between how long gases emitted raise atmospheric concentrations and how long the offset lowers them for.
The problem is that something like 90% of the offsets are fake like this, and of the remaining ones, another 90% have a mismatch between how long gases emitted raise atmospheric concentrations and how long the offset lowers them for.