carbon credits – P.S. You Should Know…

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Google uses a lot of energy, so you can bet they’ll buy lots of carbon credits.

September 14, 2024

That energy comes (I think mostly) from fossil fuel power plans, which contribute carbon to the atmosphere. This isn’t going to change any time soon, so you can bet they’ll be buying more carbon credits! “Google’s emissions surged nearly 50% […]

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Sometimes governments just make extra carbon credits.

September 14, 2024

There is this weird case of carbon accounting. “Shell sold to Canada’s largest oil sands companies millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse […]