GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It's already powering its scooters and operations with clean energy as well as buying carbon offsets to neutralize emissions. Recently Lime also announced a partnership with the World Wildlife Foundation, which include programs around education, advocacy and carbon innovation. VTA closely tracks its energy use for its fleet.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2020

IEMA’s GHG Management Hierarchy was first published in 2009 when the risk of defaulting to offset solutions was often seen as undermining approaches to reduce carbon emissions. Good practice should continue to see carbon reduction targets addressed separately from compensation measures.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Bunloit Estate owner Jeremy Leggett, a former climate campaigner at Greenpeace International and 2009 Hilary Laureate for International Leadership on Climate Change, is trying to crowdsource land ownership in Scotland. Carbon offsetting could therefore be used to help local communities restore the landscape back to nature.”.

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Just Capital

DECEMBER 16, 2022

JetBlue shifts its sustainability strategy, choosing to focus on the increasing viability of green aviation fuel rather than carbon offsets. Nowhere is the difference between nominal and real values in wages more stark than with the minimum wage, which has had a 28% reduction in purchasing power since 2009.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Founded in 2009 and with US$200m in assets under management, SLM concentrates solely on the developed world and has operations across Europe, the USA and Australia. When it comes to agricultural and forestry carbon management, it’s private sector actors driving change by buying carbon credits.”.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Revelations that almost 95% of the “avoided deforestation” carbon credits issued by the world’s largest certifier have zero climate mitigation value, have sparked calls for rigour, transparency, and accountability in the carbon credit process.

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Impakter

JANUARY 31, 2023

Earlier this month, an investigation conducted by the Guardian, Die Zeit, and SourceMaterial found that 90% of rainforest carbon offsets sold by Verra are worthless. This has re-raised issues around voluntary carbon markets and their lack of regulation.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They point to Verra’s carbon credit program which came under scrutiny this year for lack of verifiability and for serving as an excuse for companies not to reduce their carbon footprint. They are not going to get paid if they bring the wrong kind of plastic,” she says. by 2025, Dewing says, especially along its Atlantic coast.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natural carbon sinks, carbon mineralization and direct-air capture are early focus areas for Stripe’s 2019 Negative Emissions Commitment , which aims to spend at least double in these areas compared with what it pays for carbon offsets.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This target is set to replace the US$100 billion annual target created at COP15 in 2009 and is expected to drive trillions of dollars toward climate action. In the US, many states now operate carbon pricing initiatives, though there is no national cap and trade scheme as yet.

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