[s9e21] Carbon Offsets Today

Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world

: Credits are often sold for protecting forests that weren't actually in danger of being cut down. Oliver mocks this as "paying someone not to do something they weren't going to do anyway." [S9E21] Carbon Offsets

The episode begins by highlighting how major corporations—from airlines to oil giants—heavily promote their "carbon-neutral" status. They do this by purchasing , certificates representing the removal or prevention of one metric ton of CO2cap C cap O sub 2 elsewhere in the world to "cancel out" their own emissions. The Core Problem: Additionality Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the

: Many projects, particularly large-scale renewable energy farms or forests that were never under threat, would have existed anyway. would have existed anyway.