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  1. Aug 2025
    1. Offsetting with carbon credits is morally equivalent to obese people hiring someone else to go on a diet for them

      for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn- Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor - carbon credits - obese people - quote - carbon credits like obese people overconsuming without feeling guilty - Offsetting with carbon credits is morally equivalent to - obese people hiring someone else to go on a diet for them or even - demanding that people in countries suffering from food-insecurity reduce their food intake - so that obese people can continue to overconsume without feeling guilty. - It resembles the colonial hoax of “paying” the poor to clean up the mess they cause.- Glenn Sankatsing

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  6. May 2024
    1. Im nördlichen Amazonasgebiet versuchen Firmen, ein Geschäft aus der Wiederaufforstung zu machen und Carbon Credits für durch Bäume absorbiertes CO2 zu verkaufen. Vielfach wird erwartet, dass die Carbon Credits lukrativer sein werden als die Verwendung des Landes für die Viehzucht. Reportage der New York Times über die in vielen problematische Praxis, unter anderem auch über die Schwierigkeiten, die Wirkung der Bäume zu messen. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/climate/amazon-reforestation.html

  7. Nov 2023
    1. The two corporations aren’t directly buying fuel from World Energy. Instead, they’ll purchase certificates representing SAF that gets pumped into the larger supply chain — then count the associated carbon reductions toward their sustainability goals. Microsoft agreed to buy certificates representing 43.7 million gallons of SAF over a 10-year period, while DHL signed a contract for 177 million gallons over seven years.

      These are basically like EACs for fuel!

  8. Jul 2023
    1. Tonne-for-tonne offsetting has historically relied upon the cheapest possible carbon credits that do little to benefit the climate and represent no real pollution cost for companies. Polluters should move to money-for-tonne contributions instead, based on an internal carbon price (WWF recommends $50-250), which would encourage the purchase of higher quality carbon credits with co-benefits. The internal carbon price in turn could be proportional to companies’ revenues or profits. 

      Buying carbon credits with co-benefits, not offsets

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    1. owever, it isimportant to distinguish between generic job categories andthe specification of tasks performed; the contributorshipmodel is designed to record each individual’s actual input(e.g., experimental design, data collection, statistical analy-sis, final article revision), not job title (e.g., coprincipalinvestigator, technician, systems analyst), since the lattermay on occasion mask or inflate the former (Stern, 2000).

      Great point about movie credits: they are about job title, not contribution.