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Stanford Social Innovation Review

Racing to net-zero: A captivating but distant ambition

by Daniel Stein + Na’im Merchant

Los Angeles Times

Is California’s cap-and-trade program hurting the environment more than helping it?

by Jonah Valdez

This timber company sold millions of dollars of useless carbon offsets

Startups are popping up to offer carbon offsets. It’s raising thorny questions.

As evidence of cap and trade problems mounts, California air regulators remain defiant

California won’t immediately change pollution credit program

by Kathleen Ronayne

Experts — once again — tell Senate panel that California’s key climate change strategy is flawed

Saved pollution credits may hinder California climate goals

by Kathleen Ronayne

How to avoid buying dodgy offsets

by Akshat Rathi

European Commission

Sustainable Carbon Cycles Conference, Plenary Session III: High expectation from society on carbon removals

by Wijnand Stoefs

The buzz around carbon removal is drawing jobseekers in droves

by Maria Gallucci

Price hike marks new era for Calif. cap and trade

Trying to be (actually) carbon neutral: Three lessons

by Julia Reichelstein

Wall Street Journal

Wildfires are hurting California program to fight climate change

Los Angeles Times

Boiling point: If a sprawling suburb ditches natural gas, is it good for the climate?

American Geophysical Union

AGU TV 2021: Climate change & the anthropocene

by Nicondra Norwood

MIT Tech Review

How a new global carbon market could exaggerate climate progress

by James Temple

The latest farm product: Carbon credits

by Elizabeth G. Dunn

Energy forum: The end of oil?

With limited EV options, Uber embraces carbon offsets in Latin America

by Cassandra Garrison

The COP26 message? We are trusting big business, not states, to fix the climate crisis

The New Republic

Fossil fuel executives at the Glasgow climate talks are miffed with the media

by Kate Aronoff

There isn’t enough space for all of the trees companies want to plant

by Amanda Peacher

A $130T climate promise is greeted with suspicion

by Zack Colman + Lorraine Woellert

A closer look: UN climate summit in Scotland

New York Magazine

The case for climate reparations

by David Wallace-Wells

California delegation heads to high stakes UN climate summit

by Alexis Madrigal

Are global warming summits still cool?

by Shawn Hubler

If a tree doesn’t fall in the forest...

California is banking on forests to reduce emissions. What happens when they go up in smoke?

by Emily Pontecorvo + Shannon Osaka

St. Cloud Times

Minnesota farmers are getting paid to fight climate change by cultivating a new cash crop: carbon

by Nora G. Hertel

Carbon offsets can be tough to get right

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Dems seek to salvage climate goals with taxes, regs

by Benjamin Storrow + Jean Chemnick

How trading CO₂ could save the climate

by Isabelle Gerretsen

How our SN 10 scientists have responded to tumultuous times

by Science News Staff

Satellite startup wants to fight climate crisis with next-level data

by Ashlee Vance

Microsoft’s million-tonne CO₂-removal purchase — lessons for net zero

by Lucas Joppa + Amy Luers + Elizabeth Willmott + S. Julio Friedmann + Steven P. Hamburg + Rafael Broze

These carbon-capturing robotic seaweed farms are like planting forests in the ocean

by Adele Peters

Net zero isn’t enough. We need to get to net negative

MIT Tech Review

Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science

by James Temple

Los Angeles Times

Burned trees and billions in cash: How a California climate program lets companies keep polluting

Financial Times

Carbon offsets: A license to pollute or a path to net zero emissions?

by Camilla Hodgson + Billy Nauman

Wildfires are ravaging forests set aside to soak up greenhouse gases

by Winston Choi-Schagrin

Wildfires are burning up trees meant to fight climate change: 'It’s definitely not working'

by Janet Wilson + Christel Hayes

MIT Tech Review

Lawmakers question california cap and trade policies, citing ProPublica report

by Lisa Song + James Temple

Scientists raise doubts over Leon’s ‘carbon-neutral’ burgers

by Patrick Greenfield

Der Tagesspiegel

Bewegung am CO2-Kompensationsmarkt

by Alicia Prager

Emissions offsets ease travel guilt, but do they reduce carbon footprints?

by Amanda Peacher

California Legislature

Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies testimony

by Danny Cullenward

How to sell 'carbon neutral' fossil fuel that doesn't exist

by Stephen Stapczynski + Akshat Rathi + Godfrey Marawanyika

The Energy Gang

As profits rise, oil majors face new pressures

by Stephen Lacey + Katherine Hamilton + Ed Crooks

Whom are we trying to fool?

Present at the creation of a climate alliance—or a climate conflict

The Independent

Carbon offset programs of companies like Microsoft, BP go up in smoke as wildfires decimate forests

by Sheila Flynn

Financial Times

US forest fires threaten carbon offsets as company-linked trees burn

by Camilla Hodgson

The Bootleg fire is burning through trees that are being used as carbon offsets

by Adele Peters

Western wildfires are sending carbon offsets up in smoke

MIT Tech Review

The pandemic slashed the West Coast’s emissions. Wildfires already reversed it.

by James Temple

Wildfires rage and a tool to combat climate change goes up in smoke

Los Angeles Times

Op-Ed: How California can lead the way on climate-protecting technologies

by David G. Victor + Ryan Hanna

Bootleg Fire is burning up carbon offsets

by Daniel Wolfe + Tal Yellin

Carbon offsets private market is completely unregulated, says policy expert

The Winklevoss's crypto carbon capture conundrum

by Liam Denning

MIT Tech Review

Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction

by James Temple

The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon

by Nathanael Johnson + Ysabelle Kempe

California’s climate program is actually adding carbon to the atmosphere

by Sophie Bushwick

California knows how to set climate goals. But can it meet them?

by Anne C. Mulkern

California not doing as well as it thinks in reducing carbon, investigation finds

Wall Street’s favorite climate solution is mired in disagreements

by Jess Shankleman + Akshat Rathi

Turning carbon offsets into catnip for commodities traders

by Akshat Rathi

MIT Tech Review

A startup using minerals to draw down CO₂ has scored funding — and its first buyer

by James Temple

Wall Street Journal

Nonprofit seeks to trap carbon in the financial markets

by Jenna Telesca

Governor caught between key Democratic blocs on oil setbacks

by Kathleen Ronayne

Carbon offsets are going primetime and they’re not ready

by Tim McDonnell

Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

by Emily Pontecorvo

The Middletown Press

Is it a plan to fight climate change, or a gas tax? The TCI is facing fierce pushback

by Jan Ellen Spiegel

Priming the pump for high-priced, high-promise carbon removal tech

by Jeff St. John

Startup that rates carbon offsets finds almost half fall short

by Will Mathis + Ivan Levingston

California’s carbon offset program might be pumping millions of tons CO₂ into the air, new study says

by Madeleine Brand

Offsetting emissions using forests

by Peter O'Dowd + Tonya Mosley

US News & World Report

Washington passed its cap-and-trade climate legislation. Now what?

by Levi Pulkkinen

Carbon pricing hits a brick wall on the left

by Casey R. Pickett + Naomi Shimberg + Jacob Miller

MIT Tech Review

A nonprofit promised to preserve wildlife. Then it made millions claiming it could cut down trees.

by Lisa Song + James Temple

Emission Impossible

by Julia Simon + Amanda Aronczyk

The New Republic

BP’s suspicious support for a carbon market in washington state

by Kate Aronoff

California program overestimates climate benefits of forest offsets

by Peter Henderson

California’s carbon offset program is a complete disaster

The math isn’t adding up on forests and CO₂ reductions

by Justine Calma

MIT Tech Review

The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere

by Lisa Song + James Temple

National Geographic

Biden wants to cut U.S. climate pollution in half—here’s how

by Madeleine Stone

How to think about negative emissions in the climate fight

by Akshat Rathi

Energy Policy Now

A primer on carbon dioxide removal

Digging into the complex, confusing and contentious world of soil carbon offsets

Burned by carbon pricing, Dems chart new course on climate

by Benjamin Storrow + Adam Aton

Financial Times

Carney task force confronts concerns over carbon credits market

by Camilla Hodgson

Does carbon pricing work? Researchers are skeptical

by Chelsea Harvey

The jury is still out on carbon credits

by Caroline Hepker + Roger Hearing

My Climate Journey

by Jason Jacobs

The real trees delivering fake corporate climate progress

by Ben Elgin + Zachary Mider

Where I find hope

These trees are not what they seem

In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes

Want to offset your carbon footprint? Here’s what you need to know

by Scott K. Johnson

The best inventions of 2020: The climate cop

This Oregon forest was supposed to store carbon for 100 years. Now it’s on fire.

by Emily Pontecorvo + Shannon Osaka

Why planting trees won’t save us

by Jeff Goodell

Bleak cap-and-trade results raise doubts about program

by Anne C. Mulkern

MIT Tech Review

Why we can’t count on carbon-sucking farms to slow climate change

by James Temple

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