Forest carbon offsets are a tool, not a silver bullet (commentary)

Mongabay
Feb 7, 2023, 5:52 pm216 pts
To achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, we must drastically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, decreasing our reliance on coal, oil and gas by 90%. Not all sectors of the economy can be decarbonized fully or quickly, however. In those cases, scientifically sound, equitable and…

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