{"id":8456,"date":"2023-11-13T06:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T05:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2023-11-13T06:54:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T05:54:40","slug":"the-problem-with-carbon-offsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/13\/the-problem-with-carbon-offsets\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with carbon offsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\"><span>So many people died of disease, war, and enslavement during the European conquest of the Americas that the Amazon rainforest grew back, making\u00a0<\/span><span>reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide<\/span><span> and may have contributed to the &quot;Little Ice Age&quot; in the 17th century.\u00a0<\/span><span>Forests today offer a more positive hope for limiting global warming. However, the current approach is failing. <\/span><span>An idea\u00a0<\/span><span>bio-based carbon credits<\/span><span>\u00a0is that an emitter of carbon dioxide \u2013 say an airline \u2013 can finance a project that protects trees, plants new ones or preserves other\u00a0<\/span><span>carbon containing ecosystems,<\/span><span>\u00a0such as bogs - wetlands with partially decomposed vegetation. \u2013 or mangroves. These projects are accredited according to approved methodologies by important registers such as Verra and Gold Standard. (<em>Robin Mills<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To\u013eko \u013eud\u00ed zomrelo na choroby, vojny a zotro\u010denie po\u010das eur\u00f3pskeho dob\u00fdvania Ameriky, \u017ee amazonsk\u00e9 pralesy op\u00e4\u0165 vyr\u00e1stli, \u010d\u00edm sa\u00a0zn\u00ed\u017eil atmosf\u00e9rick\u00fd oxid uhli\u010dit\u00fd a mo\u017eno prispeli k \u201emalej dobe \u013eadovej\u201c v 17. storo\u010d\u00ed.\u00a0Lesy dnes poskytuj\u00fa pozit\u00edvnej\u0161iu n\u00e1dej na obmedzenie glob\u00e1lneho otep\u013eovania.\u00a0S\u00fa\u010dasn\u00fd pr\u00edstup v\u0161ak zlyh\u00e1va. My\u0161lienka\u00a0uhl\u00edkov\u00fdch kreditov na biologickej b\u00e1ze\u00a0spo\u010d\u00edva v tom, \u017ee emitent oxidu uhli\u010dit\u00e9ho \u2013 [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offsetove-projekty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","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=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}