{"id":252240,"date":"2024-06-06T22:52:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/do-carbon-offsets-really-work\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:52:46","slug":"do-carbon-offsets-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/do-carbon-offsets-really-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Carbon Offsets Really Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Carbon offsets are credits that you purchase in order to balance out your emissions. You fund a project that will remove or store that same amount of carbon dioxide you emitted but in a different place. Your credit purchase means you \u201cretire\u201d the emissions to a carbon sink such as land restoration or the planting of trees.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it might work for you. You fly from Boston to LA, releasing over 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and you purchase an offset to reconcile the emissions your travel generated.<\/p>\n<p>A carbon offset broadly refers to a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or an increase in carbon storage that is used to compensate for emissions that occur elsewhere. Because GHGs mix globally in the atmosphere, it does not matter where exactly they are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/06\/06\/do-carbon-offsets-really-work\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Carbon offsets are credits that you purchase in order to balance out your emissions. You fund a project that will remove or store that same amount of carbon dioxide you emitted but in a different place. Your credit purchase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":252241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do Carbon Offsets Really Work? - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/06\/06\/do-carbon-offsets-really-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do Carbon Offsets Really Work?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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