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There have been quite a few key articles this week diving into what #NetZero and #NatureBasedSolutions really mean (and don't mean) for the climate.
Spoiler alert: #NetZeroIsNotZero. Read the small print.
Here's a thread to help keep track.
Spoiler alert: #NetZeroIsNotZero. Read the small print.
Here's a thread to help keep track.
If you don't believe the activists, will you listen to the scientists?
41 scientists point out 10 myths that underpin #NetZero targets, carbon offsetting and #NatureBasedSolutions. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/12/11/10-myths-net-zero-targets-carbon-offsetting-busted/
41 scientists point out 10 myths that underpin #NetZero targets, carbon offsetting and #NatureBasedSolutions. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/12/11/10-myths-net-zero-targets-carbon-offsetting-busted/
Net Zero targets? Read the fine print.
"All of the options on the table for taking excess carbon out of the air remain deeply flawed, experts say."
@AFP @marlowehood https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201209-net-zero-climate-targets-read-the-fine-print
"All of the options on the table for taking excess carbon out of the air remain deeply flawed, experts say."
@AFP @marlowehood https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201209-net-zero-climate-targets-read-the-fine-print
A letter to the Financial Times in which several academics respond to Mark Carney's big plans to scale up offsetting.
"Someone has to say it: the emperor has no clothes."
Don't rely on carbon offsets as a climate change solution
@doreenstabinsky
https://www.ft.com/content/300213d3-7968-4219-a131-e433e6012b60?sharetype=blocked
"Someone has to say it: the emperor has no clothes."
Don't rely on carbon offsets as a climate change solution
@doreenstabinsky
https://www.ft.com/content/300213d3-7968-4219-a131-e433e6012b60?sharetype=blocked
Something even more spicy here:
These Trees are Not What They Seem...
How The Nature Conservancy, the world's biggest environmental group, became a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets
@ben_elgin https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-nature-conservancy-carbon-offsets-trees/
These Trees are Not What They Seem...
How The Nature Conservancy, the world's biggest environmental group, became a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets
@ben_elgin https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-nature-conservancy-carbon-offsets-trees/
I may as well keep adding good articles about #netzero, carbon offsets and so-called "nature-based solutions" to this 
thread.
Expert on carbon market oversight @dcullenward explains to @drvolts why
Carbon Offsets Aren't Working, and Probably Can't https://www.volts.wtf/p/carbon-offsets-arent-working-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter
thread.Expert on carbon market oversight @dcullenward explains to @drvolts why
Carbon Offsets Aren't Working, and Probably Can't https://www.volts.wtf/p/carbon-offsets-arent-working-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter
