{"id":5652,"date":"2023-07-11T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2023-07-11T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:44:38","slug":"companies-urged-to-abandon-environmental-claims-based-on-carbon-offsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/07\/11\/companies-urged-to-abandon-environmental-claims-based-on-carbon-offsets\/","title":{"rendered":"They called on companies to drop environmental claims based on carbon offsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-iyhl1z\"><span>Companies should abandon environmental claims based on offsets and instead adopt a &quot;climate contribution&quot; model under the new quality standard. <\/span><span>In the new code of practice\u00a0 <\/span><span>Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative<\/span><span>\u00a0(VCMI) has published guidance on how companies should use carbon credits as part of high-quality corporate actions. It recommends that companies publish their emissions each year, demonstrate that they are successfully meeting a science-based target in line with the Paris Agreement and use carbon credits only to contribute to climate change mitigation, moving away from claims that they have &quot;undone&quot; their emissions. emissions by purchasing compensations. (<em>Patrik Greenfield, the Guardian)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies should abandon offset-based environmental claims and instead adopt a \u201cclimate contribution\u201d model under a new quality standard. In a new code of practice, the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) has published guidance on how companies should use carbon credits as part of high-quality corporate actions. It recommends that companies disclose their [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikove-kredity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}