Blogposts tagged 'Offsetting'

Can you balance coal power with forests? Not based on the research we've done, you can't.

Carbon offsetting seems deceptively simple. We know that we in the West need to cut our carbon emissions - the committee on climate change has said 80% by 2050 in the UK. That's going to be expensive and difficult say the naysayers - so here's an idea. Instead of getting rid of, say, coal-fired power stations, why don't we get the people who want to build them - the big energy companies - to pay for the carbon they're going to emit to be saved somewhere else?