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 Stories About: business AND carbon offsets AND climate AND greenish companies
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Retire your carbon, offset your guilt
Carbon Retirement sees opportunity in European allowances |
Joseph Romm |
24 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Carbon Retirement -- you read it here first (or maybe second). I don't normally endorse individual companies. But I have long thought European allowances were the best alternative to offsets and am delighted someone has made a business out of it. The business opportunity is clear -- offsets suck. At a policy level, they can destroy the environmental value of climate legislation. At a personal level, lots of vendors are selling very dubious offsets, includ ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, greenish companies (all these topics) |
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