{"id":642,"date":"2012-04-12T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:31:18","slug":"the-inconvenient-truth-of-offsetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/the-inconvenient-truth-of-offsetting\/","title":{"rendered":"The inconvenient truth of offsetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 2012 <strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/the-inconvenient-truth-of-carbon-offsets-1.10373\">The inconvenient truth of carbon offsets<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Nature<br \/>\n<\/strong>A <em><a href=\"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/The-inconvenient-truth-of-carbon-offsets-Pre-edit-version-.pdf\">\u00a0Pre-edited version<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>of the piece is also available<\/p>\n<p>Even so-called &#8216;good&#8217; offsetting schemes increase rather than reduce absolute emissions. Whilst there certainly need to be measures for assisting poorer nations and communities to both develop low-carbon and climate resilient futures, such &#8216;reparation&#8217; should not be an excuse for those that have caused the problem to continue to avoid deep and meaningful mitigation. Despite the attraction of &#8216;purchasing\u00a0indulgences&#8217;,\u00a0<em>\u201cOffsetting is worse than doing nothing, it is without scientific legitimacy,<\/em><em>\u00a0is dangerously misleading and leads to a net increase in emissions\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2012 \u00a0The inconvenient truth of carbon offsets\u00a0&#8211; Nature A \u00a0Pre-edited version\u00a0of the piece is also available Even so-called &#8216;good&#8217; offsetting schemes increase rather than reduce absolute emissions. Whilst there certainly need to be measures for assisting poorer nations and communities to both develop low-carbon and climate resilient futures, such &#8216;reparation&#8217; should not be an excuse for those that have caused the problem to continue to avoid deep and meaningful mitigation. Despite the attraction of &#8216;purchasing\u00a0indulgences&#8217;,\u00a0\u201cOffsetting is worse than doing nothing, it is without scientific legitimacy,\u00a0is dangerously misleading and leads to a net increase in emissions\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}