{"id":8067,"date":"2023-10-24T06:44:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2023-10-24T06:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T04:44:48","slug":"eu-is-preparing-to-revive-failed-climate-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/10\/24\/eu-is-preparing-to-revive-failed-climate-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU is about to revive the failed climate solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since their inception more than 30 years ago, carbon offsets have provided false comfort to those seeking easy solutions to the climate crisis. Encouraging one party to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere while paying the other to do the opposite has been a huge departure from the decarbonisation of our economies and lives. One scandal after another has engulfed carbon offset schemes. Their credibility has been dented as evidence mounts that offset projects are not delivering the climate gains they promise. An investigation earlier this year found that 90 % rainforest protection schemes approved by the world\u2019s largest carbon offset standards agency, Verra, were \u201cworthless\u201d from a climate perspective\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jan\/18\/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.\u00a0<\/a>This point was reinforced by a new study from UC Berkeley, which found that companies significantly overestimated the emissions their projects saved. (<em>Kathleen McAfee, Kate Dooley).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Od svojho vzniku pred viac ako 30 rokmi poskytuj\u00fa uhl\u00edkov\u00e9 kompenz\u00e1cie falo\u0161n\u00fd komfort t\u00fdm, ktor\u00ed h\u013eadaj\u00fa jednoduch\u00e9 rie\u0161enia klimatickej kr\u00edzy. Povzbudzovanie jednej strany, aby pokra\u010dovalo v pumpovan\u00ed sklen\u00edkov\u00fdch plynov do atmosf\u00e9ry, a platenie druhej za opak, bolo obrovsk\u00fdm odklonom od dekarboniz\u00e1cie na\u0161ich ekonom\u00edk a \u017eivotov. Jeden \u0161kand\u00e1l\u00a0 za druh\u00fdm zachv\u00e1til sch\u00e9my kompenz\u00e1cie uhl\u00edka. Ich d\u00f4veryhodnos\u0165 [&hellip;]<\/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-8067","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\/8067","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=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}