Raft of flaws found in popular carbon offsetting schemes - An episode of Dispatches on Channel 4 on Monday entitled "The Great Green Smoke Screen" will show academics and environmentalists questioning the ethics and impact of offsetting.
"Dispatches questioned whether big companies such as HSBC and Sky had any right to claim they were "carbon neutral" as a result of buying offsets to undo the effects of their pollution. Instead the programme hinted that more should be done to limit the polluting activity in the first place."
You heard it here first. Well... ish.
*Do however, bear in mind that Ch4 screened another 'Great' doco not so long ago. And if the BBC can get itself mired by editing for effect... and ratings, well, who do we believe now?
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First we had from DEFRA, the Carbon Offsetting Guidelines (Feb 13,2007).
Now we have DEFRA's Carbon Offsetting Code of Best Practice, launched today by 'Waste Joan Ruddock' (well, that's how I first read it in the article), supported by 'the offsetting industry, business, environment NGOs (I'm going off the idea already) and others'.
Oh, the code will be voluntary -"offsetting providers or companies that sell offsets alongside their goods and services will be able to choose whether they want to seek accreditation for some or all of their products."
So anything that's a bit dodgy offest-wise then can still be done, but just won't get accreditation?
That'll really sort the beneficial carbon offset providers from the carbcon merchants then!
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