US EditionPaying to pollute: How carbon offsets actually raised emissions in China
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Paying to pollute: How carbon offsets actually raised emissions in China
Carbon offset programmes aim to lower emissions by allowing high-income countries to meet part of their reduction targets by financing projects in low- and middle-income countries. Evidence from China—one of the world’s largest suppliers of these projects—suggests that non-additional offsets (i.e. those that would have happened anyway) can in fact exacerbate environmental damages.
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