{"id":7699,"date":"2023-10-03T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2023-10-03T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:55:41","slug":"can-carbon-offsets-help-solve-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/10\/03\/can-carbon-offsets-help-solve-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Can \u201ccarbon offsets\u201d help address climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"credit svelte-q37mlh\">\n<p class=\"svelte-q37mlh\">Every day, people are encouraged to buy products and services with alleged climate benefits \u2013 whether it\u2019s \u201ccarbon-neutral flights,\u201d \u201czero-pollution beef,\u201d or \u201ccarbon-negative coffee.\u201d Such claims rely on \u201ccarbon offsets.\u201d\u00a0<span>Simply put, carbon offsets involve an entity that emits greenhouse gases into the atmosphere paying for another entity to pollute less. <\/span><span>For example, an airline in a developed country that wants to claim it is reducing its emissions could pay to protect part of the Amazon rainforest. This would \u2013 in theory \u2013 \u201cundo\u201d some of the airline\u2019s pollution. <\/span><span>It&#039;s not just businesses that rely on carbon offsets. Major economies are also investing in carbon offsets as a way to meet their international emissions targets \u2013 with offsets becoming\u00a0<\/span><span>main point<\/span><span> UN climate talks. (<\/span><em>Josh<\/em> <em>Gabbatiss<\/em>\u00a0, \u00a0\u00a0<em>Daisy Dunne, Aruna Chandrasekhar, Orla Dwyer<\/em>\u00a0, \u00a0\u00a0<em>Molly Lempriere, Yanine Quiroz, Ayesha<\/em> <em>Tandon and Dr. Giuliana<\/em> )<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, people are encouraged to buy products and services with alleged climate benefits \u2013 whether it\u2019s \u201ecarbon-neutral flights,\u201c \u201ezero-pollution beef,\u201c or \u201ecarbon-negative coffee.\u201c Such claims rely on \u201ecarbon offsets.\u201c Simply put, carbon offsets involve an entity emitting [\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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","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=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}