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The inconvenient truth of carbon offsets

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  • Kevin Anderson

    (Kevin Anderson is deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester, UK.)

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Kevin Anderson explains why he refused to purchase a carbon offset, and why you should steer clear of them too.

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  • Kevin Anderson, 2012. "The inconvenient truth of carbon offsets," Nature, Nature, vol. 484(7392), pages 7-7, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:484:y:2012:i:7392:d:10.1038_484007a
    DOI: 10.1038/484007a
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    3. Stefano Carattini & Andrea Baranzini & Philippe Thalmann & Frédéric Varone & Frank Vöhringer, 2017. "Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 68(1), pages 97-128, September.
    4. Joseph A. Johnson & Jochen Theis & Adam Vitalis & Donald Young, 2020. "The Influence of Firms' Emissions Management Strategy Disclosures on Investors' Valuation Judgments†," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(2), pages 642-664, June.
    5. Rebotier, Julien, 2023. "Oil offsets in Esmeraldas (Ecuador) When the promotion of development shores up unequal risk situations," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 213(C).
    6. Gregory Trencher & Mathieu Blondeel & Jusen Asuka, 2023. "Do all roads lead to Paris?," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(7), pages 1-33, July.
    7. Rachel Slocum, 2018. "Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(10), pages 1-25, October.
    8. Wildauer, Rafael & Leitch, Stuart & Kapeller, Jakob, 2020. "How to boost the European Green Deal's scale and ambition," ifso expertise 8, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Socioeconomics (ifso).
    9. Baranzini, Andrea & Borzykowski, Nicolas & Carattini, Stefano, 2018. "Carbon offsets out of the woods? Acceptability of domestic vs. international reforestation programmes in the lab," Journal of Forest Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 1-12.
    10. Andrea Baranzini & Nicolas Borzykowski & Stefano Carattini, 2016. "Carbon offsets out of the woods? The acceptability of domestic vs. international reforestation programmes," GRI Working Papers 257, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
    11. Adeline Montlaur & Luis Delgado & César Trapote-Barreira, 2021. "Analytical Models for CO 2 Emissions and Travel Time for Short-to-Medium-Haul Flights Considering Available Seats," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-23, September.
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    13. Johan Warburg & Britta Frommeyer & Julia Koch & Sven‐Olaf Gerdt & Gerhard Schewe, 2021. "Voluntary carbon offsetting and consumer choices for environmentally critical products—An experimental study," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(7), pages 3009-3024, November.
    14. Caroline Flammer, 2019. "Green Bonds: Effectiveness and Implications for Public Policy," NBER Chapters, in: Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, volume 1, pages 95-128, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    15. Caroline Flammer, 2019. "Green Bonds: Effectiveness and Implications for Public Policy," NBER Working Papers 25950, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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