Mar 6, 2023 | Biodiversity, Carbon, Carbon credits, Carbon markets, Carbon offsets, Indigenous, Land gap
Image source and acknowledgement: The Land Gap report The pressure on land in carbon dioxide removal In response to climate change, governments are increasingly relying on land for carbon dioxide removal. This is particularly true in Australia, notorious for its use...
Aug 5, 2022 | Carbon, Carbon credits, Carbon markets, Carbon offsets
Photo credit: Jaccob McKay/Unsplash The following is a summary of the Lighter Footprints event “CARBON CREDITS: Dodgy offsets or the real deal?” held on Wednesday 27 July 2022. The recording is available here. Moderator Tim Baxter, Senior Researcher for...
Jul 25, 2022 | Carbon credits, Carbon markets
The situation with carbon markets is becoming more fluid by the day! Welcome to this diary style blog, with updates and links to useful papers, public discussion and media responses to issues recently raised about the integrity of our carbon markets. Lighter Footpints...
Jun 20, 2022 | Carbon, Carbon credits, Carbon markets, Carbon offsets
As countries move to decarbonise their economies, companies are trying to offset their emissions by buying carbon credits. You can think of carbon credits as a “permission slip” to emit up to a certain set amount of CO2e that year. Most of today’s interim solutions to...