Carbon offsets have existed for decades, and the size of the voluntary carbon market has ballooned to about $2 billion. Many countries and countless companies, including giants like Amazon and FedEx, ...

By Brad Haynes BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Google has agreed to finance restoration of the Amazon rainforest in its biggest deal ...

Blockchain could become the trust engine of climate action, bringing transparency, accountability, and real-time verification to global sustainability efforts.

An aerial view of Catawba College, which was certified as carbon neutral in 2023. That's in part because renewable energy installations like the rooftop solar panels at right but also because the ...

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Thousands of companies have established net zero goals, and many use carbon offsets—for example, paying to protect forests—to bolster their claims about reducing emissions. Shell, for example, spent ...

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Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel out” their emissions. But they just pay companies to pollute, with little benefit to show for it. Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel ...

Carbon offset projects claiming to curb deforestation are significantly overestimating their impact, according to a new study published in Science on Thursday. Sold as a way to lessen the impact of ...

The response of Taylor Swift’s spokesperson to December reports that the pop star had generated 128 tons of carbon dioxide from private jet travel in just three months was simple: Before the start of ...

Many companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are backing that claim by investing in vast swaths of forests to recapture carbon. It turns out this strategy isn’t working very ...