Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact
If you had $5000 that you wanted to use to fight climate change, and you wanted to have it have a bigger multiplying effect than your own personal consumption (install heat pumps, get electric car, etc.), where <i>would</i> you put that, given that most carbon credits seem to be scams?<p>That is, what's the least-scammy carbon credit, and/or place of concrete change?<p>Places I donate to, but wonder how much the effect of each is:<p>* Climate charities focused on legislation (EarthJustice, Clean Air Task Force, EDF, NRDC)<p>* Direct CO2 removal (Climeworks). Seems like a drop in the bucket, but feel like this tech needs to grow.<p>* Goldstandard.org Carbon Credits. May be just as scammy, but appears to be direct gifts to green energy projects in developing world. (Of course, maybe they would have gotten the money anyway.)<p>What are other people's thoughts?