Forest conservation carbon offsets being significantly overestimated ...

Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest ...

The majority of carbon offset schemes are significantly overestimating the levels of deforestation they are preventing, according to a study published in ...

Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest ...

The forest carbon offsets approved by the world's leading certifier and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations are largely worthless

Forest conservation carbon offsets being significantly overestimated ...

Millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are being wiped from company ledgers based on offsets generated from flawed forest ...

Instead of Carbon Offsets, We Need 'Contributions' to Forests

The stakes could not be higher. Over $1.3 billion in funding was channeled to forest and land use carbon offsets in 2021 alone. Now, as the ...

Carbon Offsets to Reduce Deforestation Are Significantly ...

A study in six countries across three continents finds that most carbon offsets aimed at avoiding deforestation are failing to keep forests standing or cut ...

Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest ...

The majority of carbon offset schemes are significantly overestimating the levels of deforestation they are preventing, according to a study published today in ...

Study finds carbon offset projects are overstating climate impacts

A new study published in Science has found that 94% of scrutinized forest carbon offsets were non-performing.

3 Reasons Why Forest Carbon Offsets Don't Always Work

The success of a forest carbon offset project ultimately relies on its ability to conserve forests — a difficult task in today's world.

Study Finds Carbon Offset Schemes 'Significantly Overestimating ...

"Carbon credits provide major polluters with some semblance of climate credentials. Yet we can see that claims of saving vast swathes of forest ...

Carbon Offset Projects Are Overestimating Their Impact on Forest ...

Voluntary carbon offset schemes are overestimating how much deforestation they prevent, according to a new analysis by an international team of scientists and ...

Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work ...

We found that most projects have not significantly reduced deforestation. For projects that did, reductions were substantially lower than claimed.

Carbon credits from forest conservation exaggerate impact of ill ...

The discrepancy between claimed credits and confirmed impact is mainly due to exaggerated forecasts of emissions avoided from the 'business-as- ...

Industry-standard baselines for improved forest management (IFM ...

First, over-crediting leads to misuse of climate funds. Second, over-crediting erodes trust in carbon removal offsets more broadly as a ...

Carbon offsets from forest conservation proje - EurekAlert!

A new analysis reveals that emission reductions from forest conservation projects – sometimes used to “offset” carbon emissions from other ...

REDD+ projects falling far short of claimed carbon cuts, study finds

A study has found that the vast majority of the carbon credits from a set of forest conservation projects on three continents aren't “offsetting ...

Avoiding overestimation in carbon offset projects, explained - Lune

In fact, research has shown that current manual practices systematically overestimate the impact of forestry carbon offsetting projects – 29% of ...

Study: Carbon offsets aren't doing their job, overstate impact

Carbon offset projects claiming to curb deforestation are significantly overestimating their impact, according to a new study published in Science on Thursday.

Carbon offsets from forest conservation projects have been ...

Carbon offsets from forest conservation projects have been overestimated ... A recent analysis has unveiled a concerning trend in the realm of ...

Forest conservation carbon offsets being significantly overestimated ...

Research published today in Science has found that carbon credits from some forest conservation projects are being inflated, and may not ...

Carbon offsets being significantly overestimated, new study finds

Research published in Science has found that carbon credits from some forest conservation projects are being inflated, and may not actually be offsetting even ...