{"id":8606,"date":"2023-11-19T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2023-11-19T07:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T06:43:27","slug":"we-burn-too-many-fossil-fuels-to-offset-them-by-planting-trees-and-offsets-make-zero-emissions-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/19\/we-burn-too-many-fossil-fuels-to-offset-them-by-planting-trees-and-offsets-make-zero-emissions-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"We burn too much fossil fuels to fix it by planting trees \u2013 offsets make \u201czero\u201d emissions impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that we can mitigate current carbon emissions by \u201coffsetting\u201d them with carbon reduction initiatives elsewhere has become central to government and business responses to climate change. But it is an idea that we need to seriously question. The offset strategy essentially assumes that the release of carbon stored by ancient biology hundreds of millions of years ago can be mitigated in the current active carbon cycle. Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, offsetting has become the preferred option globally. The concept of \u201cnet zero\u201d carbon emissions is also at the heart of New Zealand\u2019s official climate response and its emissions trading scheme. How this might change under a new government is difficult to predict, as the different positions taken by the negotiating parties could lead, as one commentator has put it, to a \u201ccoalition of climate chaos.\u201d (<em>Mike Joy<\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that we can mitigate current carbon emissions by \u201eoffsetting\u201c them with carbon reduction initiatives elsewhere has become central to government and business responses to climate change. But it\u2019s an idea that we need to seriously question. The offset strategy essentially assumes that the release of carbon stored by ancient biology a hundred million years ago can be mitigated in the current cycle of active [\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-8606","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\/8606","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=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}