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Companies are buying up cheap carbon offsets − data suggest it may be more about greenwashing than helping the climate (theconversation.com)
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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of COURSE it is.

BTW. Who gets this carbon offset money anyway, and what do they do with it?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

If they actually worked, it would be payment to somebody who has taken an action to prevent emissions they otherwise would not have prevented. In practice, it's 90% middlemen who claim to have paid somebody to take such an action, but no such action actually occurred, or a completely ineffective action occurred.