Carbon offsets: a booming market or greenwashing?
GLASGOW: Corporate carbon polluters plant trees to counter their CO2 emissions, but activists warn against greenwashing and say such afforestation schemes detract from the emissions reductions needed to combat climate change. Voluntary carbon offsetting is being hotly debated at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Here’s a backgrounder. How does it work? Carbon offsetting is when a company … Read more
