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Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 90,084 words

to the extortion game by threatening to increase the damage unless the rich countries pay up. As we shall also see, this problem besets the carbon-offsetting opportunities: Brazil could get companies to pay to stop them cutting down more trees, rather than planting additional trees for natural sequestration. When it comes

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beef export market. Would it not now be in the interests of Brazil to announce a more rapid felling policy, in order to harvest the carbon offsets and increase beef production for the new markets? This is an obvious perverse incentive. It leads to a more profound question. Are there any offsets

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of any measure that could be taken and ask whether it is an offsetting investment that should be made anyway. Are there any really additional carbon offsetting measures that would not have been made anyway? Chapter 7 considers the details of how sequestration works in practice, and the choice between natural sequestration

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could join the roughly 2 per cent of passengers who did this in 2019. But how can you know whether this really will be additional carbon offsetting, as opposed to corporate greenwash, and largely wasted? You should ask the airline what precisely your money is going on, how much of the money

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International Maritime Organisation, which now has a 50 per cent emissions reduction target by 2050, and the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organisation with its Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation agreement. Back to text 16. On the pollution from cruise holidays, see www.transportenvironment.org/press/luxury-cruise-giant

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–37 transport and see individual method of transport 2020, position in 36–7 UN treaties and 38–57 unilateralism and 58–80 see also unilateralism carbon offsetting xiii–xiv, 4, 5, 12, 34, 45, 72, 74, 79, 94–6, 97, 105, 143–59, 192, 201, 203, 207, 214, 222, 223, 234 for

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xiii, xiv, 10, 12, 62, 84, 94–6, 105, 143–59, 169, 172–4, 192, 201–3, 222–5 agriculture and 169, 172–4 carbon offsetting and see carbon offsetting electricity and 222–5 principle of 94–6, 143–4 sequestration and see sequestration transport and 192, 201–3 Netherlands 138 Network Rail 214

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, 214, 216, 218, 219, 222, 228 Obama, Barack 48, 53, 54, 59 oceans 2, 14, 22, 33, 85, 86, 88, 148, 163, 231 offsetting see carbon offsetting offshore wind power 31, 69, 75–6, 208, 212, 219, 221 Ofgem 220 oil ix, 2, 20, 22–3, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff

by Fred Pearce  · 30 Sep 2009  · 407pp  · 121,458 words

Queen of Trash and Other Chinese Titans of Recycling 28. E-waste: What to Do with that Old Computer Part Seven: The Footprint Doctors 29. Carbon Offsets: Green Fraud or Painless Panacea? 30. Too Few Planets: Scary Science in Siena One in a Billion: Paul, the African Laird Part Eight: My Species

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am freelance and by and large I can choose where I travel and how. Anyhow, it didn’t look so good. See Chapter 29 on carbon offsets for what happened when I tried to calculate my horrible carbon footprint for travelling to write this book. But really I knew the problems. I

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. Now that I have, I am convinced. I can’t think of a better place to send my computer. Part Seven The Footprint Doctors 29 Carbon Offsets: Green Fraud or Painless Panacea? IT WAS A night for partying. Fireworks fizzed across the Brisbane sky as half of the city’s inhabitants celebrated

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world for this book. I too dump and burn. Can I offset my travels with a clear conscience? I decided to explore the world of carbon offsets. There are two kinds of offsets: the official and the unofficial, or voluntary, offsets. The official ones help organizations meet their targets under the Kyoto

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me wrong. There are plenty of good reasons for planting forests. Social and environmental. But they have to work in their own terms. Not as carbon offsets. Many offset companies are getting out of the trees business. They say the burden of long-term monitoring and verification, and the potential for disputes

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, targetneutral scheme 305 Brasilia 347 bread Lighthouse 42 processes 42 stoneground wholemeal flour 42–4 yeasts 42 breweries, closures 37 Brisbane 303–4 British Airways, carbon offsets 304–5 British Trust for Ornithology 262 Broadacre City, Lloyd Wright 346–7 Brown, Gordon, eco-cities 350 brownfield sites development of 351 wildlife 350

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, 359 Cameron, Ray 219–20 Cameroon cocoa 94–7 cotton 136 slash-and-burn agriculture 95 carbon footprint books 312–13 calculating 371 publishing 313 carbon offsets see also CO2 emissions aircraft emissions 303–4, 306–8 availability 304–5 British Airways 304–5 Climate Care 308, 310, 312 costs 308 definitions

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305 Climate Care 308, 310, 312 climate changes Alaska 218–19 economic implications 358 Mount Toba eruption 326–7 cloves 58 CO2 emissions see also carbon offsets accumulation 316 air travel 233, 236–7 built environment’ 242–4 burying with biofuels 357 cement 240 coaches and buses 235 coal-fired power stations

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Cameron 45, 103, 359 food production, and population growth 340 Forest Stewardship Council approved paper 312 tropical hardwoods 175 Forest Trends 170, 175 forests as carbon offsets 309 maintenance 308–9 Foundation for Adolescent Development 154 Fox, Richard, Homegrown 111 Foxconn, mobile phones 271–2 Friends of the Earth 101, 350 Frison

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Kirkham, Ruth 40 Klor, Babubhai 131 KNCU (Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union) 30–3 Kombe, Jackson 29–30 Kyoto Protocol air travel 236–7 Australia 198 carbon offsets 304, 311 Ministry of Defence 242 Lagavulin, Islay single malt Scotch 44–5 Lamb, Harriet 103–4 land, multiple functions for 316 landfill sites heavy

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stations 227, 355–6 waste from 356 nuclear-fusion research reactors, Culham 226 offices, ecological footprints 315 oil Alaska 215–20 Siberia 220–2 Orbost, carbon offsets 305–6 oregano 55–6 organic farming bananas 87 coffee 30 crop/livestock integration 336 king prawns 64 Nigeria 335–6 organic food, air freighted

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, John 262 Philippines see Manila Phones for Africa, Tanzania 278 phosphates fertilizers 205–6 Morocco 206 phthalates, mobile phones 273 pineapples 89 pistachios 91 plankton, carbon offsets 310 plant foods see also foods by name air-miles issues 111–12 ancient varieties 89–90 benefits of local 45 carbon footprint 101–2

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, M. M. A., prawn processor 67 salep, Turkey 57 Scope, textile recycling 264–6 Scotch, Islay single malt 44–5 Scotland Letterewe 321–2 Orbost carbon offsets 305–6 wildlife reintroductions 321–2 Seamark, king prawns 62, 68 Sears 142 seasonality, plant foods 100, 105 Secret Intelligence Service, headquarters 241 Senegal, fishing

Badvertising

by Andrew Simms  · 314pp  · 81,529 words

provisions, the case of sports sponsorship also logically falls under the remit of responsible consumption.79 Many high-carbon companies controversially sign onto scientifically dubious carbon offsetting programmes, while keeping their core business practices largely unchanged. It is equally questionable for sports organisations to claim climate neutrality while accepting money from companies

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WHY OFFSETTING IS NOT A POLLUTER’S ‘GET OUT OF JAIL FREE’ CARD So while we are on the subject, let’s just think about carbon offsetting for a moment. This is now widely used by companies who sign up to greenhouse gas emission reduction programmes. The practice allows companies to keep

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projects, such as reforestation schemes, in other countries – often in the Global South. Among global sports institutions, FIFA is a high-profile organisation relying on carbon offsetting to live up to its climate promises. By pledging to become carbon neutral by 2050, the international football federation sets a precedent for others in

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football to use offsetting to attempt to achieve environmental objectives. But carbon offsetting schemes have been criticised on several grounds, for their highly ‘limited-to-nil’ impact on reducing emissions, to outright negative impacts when there are devastating

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7 per cent of emissions reductions credits were of substantial and measurable value.82 More recent research into the world’s largest supplier of rainforest carbon offsets found over 90 per cent of these to be ‘worthless’.83 In fact the charge sheet against offsetting is long, and this is crucial, because

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about offsetting claims in adverts spread to such a degree that in May 2023, the European Parliament passed a bill that prohibits companies from advertising carbon offsets because ‘this practice wrongly leads consumers to consider related products or services as safe for the environment’.85 The multiple health, social and local economic

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fuelled a marketing drive to persuade customers that they can continue to fly guilt free by simply paying somebody else to cut their emissions instead. Carbon offsetting, also explored earlier, is the practice of increasing carbon pollution from one source, but paying a fee, usually via a broker, to reduce carbon emissions

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by the same amount from a different source. Carbon offsetting as an idea has been around for decades, and was first formalised in the United Nations’s Kyoto Protocol in 1997, through the Clean Development

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planted somewhere does not bring carbon-free air travel any closer to becoming a reality. As we’ll see below, the scientific credibility of forest carbon offset schemes has gone up in flames, like many of the actual trees planted as offsets. Offsetting is theoretically unsound in principle too, for the fundamental

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draw their own conclusions. Creating a global market in unfalsifiable claims is manifestly absurd, but this is nonetheless the basis of the $2 billion ‘Voluntary Carbon Offsetting’ market today, which is expected to grow to five times this size by 2030.30 Yet we already have decades of real world experience demonstrating

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emissions that we met at the start of this chapter, from making offsetting effectively its only substantive approach to the climate challenge to date. The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is the central plank of ICAO’s net zero efforts.33 It is a ‘global market-based measure

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to investigate ads by airline EasyJet, designed by ad agency VCCP London,44 that promoted ticket sales using greenwashing claims about ‘Zero Emissions Flight’ and carbon offsetting schemes. The ASA told us that because it was undergoing a review of green transport claims it could not investigate ads by specific companies. The

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campaign, often a variation on the original theme may already be being rolled out. Shell in the Netherlands, for example, switching from the language of carbon ‘offsets’ to carbon ‘compensations’, would be just such a case. Similar problems of weak advertising regulation can be seen in places as diverse as the USA

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/7271/ 82. Climate Home News (2018) FIFA accused of greenwashing in World Cup carbon offset scheme. 11 June. www.climatechangenews.com/2018/06/11/fifa-accused-greenwashingworld-cup-carbon-offset-scheme 83. Guardian (2023) Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows. 18 January. www.theguardian.com/environment/2023

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/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe 84. Badvertising (2022) Caught offside with

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biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows. Guardian, 18 January. www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe 33. ICAO (2023) Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme (CORSIA), June. www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CORSIA/Pages/default.aspx 34. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian. The evolution of

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.org/latest/dairy-company-arla-convicted-for-misleading-green-advertising 11. George, Sarah (2021) Shell’s carbon offsetting ad is greenwashing, rules Dutch watchdog. Euractiv, 2 September. www.euractiv.com/section/all/news/shells-promotion-of-carbon-offsets-is-greenwashing-rules-dutch-watchdog/ 12. Reclame Fossielvrij (2022) Shell verliest ook in hoger beroep: CO2

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: psychology of 117 car industry 50, 81−2, 84−6, 115−33 see also specific models, e.g. Ford Fiesta, SUVs Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) 144 carbon offsets 102−4, 142−4 Carmichael Coal Mine, Australia 166 Carnegie Mellon University, Decision Sciences Department 52 Carter, Jimmy 111 CCTV (closed

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson  · 28 Apr 2024  · 249pp  · 74,201 words

to do business with sustainable brands, their motivation for overstatement is clear, if not excusable (Keeble 2023). It’s not simply about consumer preference, however. Carbon offsets are rapidly emerging as an investable asset class because of the view that regulated instruments (such as carbon taxes and caps on emissions) alone will

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will need to reduce their own emissions as much as they can and that regulated carbon markets will be insufficient, which will create demand for carbon offsets in the voluntary carbon market. Bloomberg puts the value of the offset market at half a trillion dollars annually by 2050, provided some of the

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of the great financial crisis. Payment Strategy and Systems 10(2), 118–131. Blicq, J. (2022). Metaverse & Financial Services. Innovations Accelerated. BloombergNEF (2023). Long-term carbon offsets outlook 2023. Bloomberg Research, 18 July (https://tinyurl.com/yqekkwyg). Bonner, M. (2022). Why we need to regulate digital identity in the metaverse. Report, 12

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford  · 14 Sep 2020  · 696pp  · 184,001 words

. For example, the threat of the EU’s unilateralism was an important factor in harnessing international consensus on regulating GHG emissions in aviation through the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA),123 discussed in chapter 7. The participating countries were incentivized to agree on the CORSIA to a large

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agreement by then.132 Against this backdrop, multilateral negotiations were revived. On October 6, 2016, the ICAO announced it had reached an agreement, called the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).133 CORSIA’s pilot phase will come into effect in 2021, but participation by ICAO states will not

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. Faced with the EU’s unilateralism in the ETS, the United States was among the countries that supported the conclusion of an international agreement—the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)171—to address the issue in a multilateral setting, which ultimately gave the United States considerably more say

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54–55. 170.See Jonathan R. Macey, Regulatory Globalization as a Response to Regulatory Competition, 52 Emory L.J. 1353, 1359 (2003). 171.See generally, Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), Int’l Civ. Aviation Org., https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CORSIA/Pages/default.aspx [https://perma.cc

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, 229 foreign direct investment, 59–60 RoHS, 214–15 standardized mass production, 63 Aviation Directive, 219–20, 259 aviation regulations Aviation Directive, 219–20, 259 Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, 90, 221, 261 emissions trading scheme, 68, 96, 219, 226, 246, 261 External Aviation Policy, 71–72 Bao, Jun

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Transpacific Partnerships, 271–72 treaty partners, EU, 70–71 cap-and-trade. See emissions trading scheme (ETS) capitalism, varieties, 40 capital mobility, international, 51, 304n163 Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), 221, 261 carbon trading, 226–27, 229 Cartagena Agreement, 75 cartel regulation and enforcement, 105. See also merger

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. See also inelasticity terminology, 48, 304n153 elastic regulatory targets, 48 emissions trading scheme (ETS), 68, 209–10 Aviation Directive, 219–20, 259 aviation regulations, 68 Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, 221 China, 88–89 de facto Brussels Effect, 219 de jure Brussels Effect, 226 extraterritorial, suspension of, 221 international

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

by Paige McClanahan  · 17 Jun 2024  · 206pp  · 78,882 words

, and the figures bounced back quickly as travel came roaring back after COVID.28 So what’s a concerned traveler to do? For a while, “carbon offsets,” a concept that gained traction in the late nineties and early 2000s, seemed to be a reasonable option for tourists who were looking to reduce

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their carbon footprint. In theory, at least, a carbon offset works like this: a traveler pays to support a tree-planting project, the restoration of a mangrove, or a similar initiative that promises to remove

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during her trip. It’s a nice idea, and for a while carbon offsets gained plenty of supporters—and investment. But the problem is that carbon offsetting hasn’t proved effective: a study by the European Commission found that 85 percent of carbon offset projects failed to reduce climate-warming emissions. The problem, the report found

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, was that the projects either “made false assumptions” about what would have happened in the absence of the intervention, or the carbon-offsetting projects “were likely to have happened anyway.”29 Offsets also raise the question of how they impact people’s behavior. If someone travels more because

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harm than good. David Victor, a codirector of the Deep Decarbonization Initiative at the University of California San Diego, said in an interview that the carbon offset market has been flooded with low-quality offsets, which has driven down the price of a carbon credit and made the whole system grossly ineffective

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they made people feel like they were doing something,” he said. “But they turned out to be almost entirely garbage.”30 One obvious alternative to carbon offsets is to stop flying. The flight shaming movement gained traction alongside the rise in fame of the activist Greta Thunberg, who famously traveled across the

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the “net” qualifier attached to all those 2050 goals means that airlines can account for any CO2 they continue to emit either by using traditional carbon offsets—yes, the same ones that Dr. Victor called “almost entirely garbage”—or by capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, which remains a very expensive

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–29, 131–33, 155, 176 Claret, Georges, 129 climate change, 51, 52, 132, 134–48, 153, 177, 189, 190 aviation’s impact on, 140–48 carbon offsets and, 141–43 contrails and, 147 coral reefs and, 135–36 glaciers and, see glaciers last-chance tourism and, 136–39 net-zero carbon emissions

Germany

by Andrea Schulte-Peevers  · 17 Oct 2010

between Europe and the US will contribute as much to climate change as an average household’s gas and electricity consumption over a whole year. Carbon Offset Schemes Climatecare.org and other websites use ‘carbon calculators’ that allow jetsetters to offset the greenhouse gases they are responsible for with contributions to energy

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world – including projects in India, Honduras, Kazakhstan and Uganda. Lonely Planet, together with Rough Guides and other concerned partners in the travel industry, supports the carbon offset scheme run by climatecare.org. Lonely Planet offsets all of its staff and author travel. For more information check out our website: lonelyplanet.com. * * * Canada

Italy

by Damien Simonis  · 31 Jul 2010

(farm-stay accommodation). Locally run tours, markets and courses are another good way to engage with the country and these are recommended throughout this guide. Carbon Offset Schemes Aviation is the fastest growing contributor to climate change. Yet it’s not exclusively bad; mile for mile, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted

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vapour) emitted. At high altitude, these gases have a greater effect on climate change. Most forms of transport emit carbon dioxide to some degree and carbon offset schemes enable you to calculate your emissions so that you can invest in renewable energy schemes and reforestation projects that will reduce the emission of

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airlines are a benefit to travellers, but a burden on the environment and Venice’s air quality; to travel with a cleaner conscience, consider a carbon-offset program (Click here). Airport bus services link both airports with Venice’s Piazzale Roma and Mestre, and the Alilaguna fast ferry runs from Marco Polo

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flight between Europe and the US will contribute as much to climate change as an average household’s gas and electricity consumption over a year. Carbon Offset Schemes Climatecare.org and other websites use ‘carbon calculators’ that allow travellers to offset the level of greenhouse gases they are responsible for with financial

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warming – including projects in India, Honduras, Kazakhstan and Uganda. Lonely Planet, together with Rough Guides and other concerned partners in the travel industry, supports the carbon offset scheme run by climatecare.org. Lonely Planet offsets all of its staff travel. For more information check out our website: www.lonelyplanet.com. * * * Singapore Air

Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist

by Ray C. Anderson  · 28 Mar 2011  · 412pp  · 113,782 words

things we can do locally to lessen the impact of skyrocketing oil prices. And we can begin to act on a broader stage by purchasing carbon offsets for company travel, making wiser, more deliberate choices about how we ship our goods, and even rethinking the wisdom of large central factories serving widely

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carbon dioxide credits carbon dioxide emissions legislation re top corporate emitters carbon emissions benefits (from RECs) carbon footprint taxing of zero, buying offsets to achieve carbon offsets doubts about carbon sinks carbon taxes Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) carpet industry, environmental impact of carpet installer network, episode in Interface’s history carpets

The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans

by Mark Lynas  · 3 Oct 2011  · 369pp  · 98,776 words

economic implications I suggest that the boundaries may carry are my assertions alone. I have no idea whether Johan’s co-authors support nuclear power, carbon offsetting, or a variety of other controversial proposals that I explore or endorse in this book. They have laid the foundations, however, for a new and

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of the planetary boundaries to the campaigns being run by the big environmental groups, we find that many of them are irrelevant or even counterproductive. Carbon offsetting is a useful short-term palliative that the Green movement has discredited without good reason, harming both the climate and the interests of poor people

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wild orangutans as well as gibbons, clouded leopards, pygmy elephants, and over 300 species of birds,” according to the Malua BioBank website.55 As with carbon offsets, aimed at mopping up an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases to those unavoidably released elsewhere, a partnership between businesses, governments, and conservationist groups is currently

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specific objections to the REDD scheme. “Allowing countries with carbon intensive lifestyles to continue consuming inequitably and unsustainably, by permitting them to fund cheaper forest carbon ‘offsets’ in developing countries, diverts critical resources and attention away from measures to address fossil fuel consumption and the real underlying causes of deforestation,” FoE asserted

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benefits (both in carbon dioxide and other pollutants) while likewise promoting the health of millions in poorer countries. One way of raising funds is via carbon offsetting. Instead of spending money in situ to reduce emissions, many consumers and industries—especially in rich countries—would find it cheaper and easier to pay

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of avoiding a tonne of carbon dioxide by putting solar panels on rooftops in Germany has been estimated at 700 euros or more.34 Using carbon-offset funds to pay for clean cookstoves worldwide is extremely good value for money in terms of climate protection and could potentially save three lives per

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children. Here, unfortunately, we run up against what may be the Green movement’s second greatest climate-change mistake, after its opposition to nuclear power. Carbon offsetting was completely derailed as a climate-mitigation strategy in its early stages by vociferous opposition from environmentalists. Prominent Green writers compared offsets to the “indulgences

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,” argued a publication by a Green-minded group called Carbon Trade Watch in 2007.35 The leftist magazine New Internationalist wrote in an editorial that carbon offsetting was “a falsehood—a con.”36 A clever activist website called Cheatneutral.com promoted the analogy of cheating on your partner: The joke was that

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overall amount of fidelity in the world would remain the same. The website claimed that the cheating analogy was apt because “in the same way, carbon offsetting tries to make it acceptable to carry on emitting excess carbon.” The crux of the argument was a psychological one: “If the carbon offsetters persuade

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about reducing your emissions.” Unfortunately the Greens got their psychology wrong. They were very successful in establishing the idea in most people’s minds that carbon offsetting was a con and a waste of money. But they were spectacularly unsuccessful in convincing the same people that therefore they needed to fly less

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million,37 but this drop was probably mainly due to the economic recession. Also, some of the early criticisms were correct in that not all carbon offsets sold—particularly those based on questionable tree-planting schemes—were likely to mop up all the carbon emitted elsewhere. Some environmental groups also deserve praise

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playing a constructive role in helping the new industry meet the highest standards: WWF, for example, was involved in designing an industry “gold standard” for carbon offsets. But I still often receive emails from people who are worried that they might be ripped off and want to ask whether offsetting is worthwhile

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After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back

by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy  · 15 Mar 2020  · 296pp  · 83,254 words

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

by Elizabeth Becker  · 16 Apr 2013  · 570pp  · 158,139 words

The Upside of Inequality

by Edward Conard  · 1 Sep 2016  · 436pp  · 98,538 words

Hawaii

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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg  · 1 Jun 2011  · 372pp  · 107,587 words

The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters

by Eric J. Johnson  · 12 Oct 2021  · 362pp  · 103,087 words

Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

by George Marshall  · 18 Aug 2014  · 298pp  · 85,386 words

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina  · 19 Aug 2019

Lonely Planet Iceland

by Lonely Planet  · 394pp  · 104,952 words

Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus  · 10 Mar 2009  · 454pp  · 107,163 words

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe  · 3 Oct 2022  · 689pp  · 134,457 words

How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road

by Gareth Dennis  · 12 Nov 2024  · 261pp  · 76,645 words

Northern California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

by Lee McIntyre  · 14 Sep 2021  · 407pp  · 108,030 words

Berlin

by Andrea Schulte-Peevers  · 20 Oct 2010  · 638pp  · 156,653 words

Homemade Kids: Thrifty, Creative and Eco-Friendly Ways to Raise Your Child

by Nicola Baird  · 14 Sep 2010

The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 1 Jan 2019  · 1,909pp  · 531,728 words

Hawaii Travel Guide

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When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

by Ashlee Vance  · 8 May 2023  · 558pp  · 175,965 words

The Rough Guide to Prague

by Humphreys, Rob

Colorado

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Invention: A Life

by James Dyson  · 6 Sep 2021  · 312pp  · 108,194 words

The Rough Guide to Brussels 4 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by Dunford, Martin.; Lee, Phil; Summer, Suzy.; Dal Molin, Loik  · 26 Jul 2010

The Rough Guide to Egypt (Rough Guide to...)

by Dan Richardson and Daniel Jacobs  · 1 Feb 2013

The Challenge for Africa

by Wangari Maathai  · 6 Apr 2009  · 288pp  · 90,349 words

Greece

by Korina Miller  · 1 Mar 2010

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

by Tyler Cowen  · 11 Apr 2012  · 364pp  · 102,528 words

Among Chimpanzees

by Nancy J. Merrick  · 321pp  · 96,349 words

Frommer's Mexico 2009

by David Baird, Lynne Bairstow, Joy Hepp and Juan Christiano  · 2 Sep 2008  · 803pp  · 415,953 words

Frommer's San Diego 2011

by Mark Hiss  · 2 Jan 2007

Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs

by Eric Peterson  · 1 Jan 2005

Frommer's London 2009

by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince  · 25 Aug 2008

California

by Sara Benson  · 15 Oct 2010

Frommer's Caribbean 2010

by Christina Paulette Colón, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince and John Marino  · 2 Jan 1989

The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better

by Annie Leonard  · 22 Feb 2011  · 538pp  · 138,544 words

Frommer's Mexico 2008

by David Baird, Juan Cristiano, Lynne Bairstow and Emily Hughey Quinn  · 21 Sep 2007

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Doto Get More of It

by Kelly McGonigal  · 1 Dec 2011  · 354pp  · 91,875 words

Frommer's Oregon

by Karl Samson  · 26 Apr 2010  · 389pp  · 210,632 words

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

by Patrick Smith  · 6 May 2013  · 309pp  · 100,573 words

Frommer's Egypt

by Matthew Carrington  · 8 Sep 2008

Minimal: How to Simplify Your Life and Live Sustainably

by Madeleine Olivia  · 9 Jan 2020  · 306pp  · 71,100 words

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger  · 28 Jun 2020

Lonely Planet London City Guide

by Tom Masters, Steve Fallon and Vesna Maric  · 31 Jan 2010

The Rough Guide to Norway

by Phil Lee  · 25 Nov 2013

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker  · 14 Jun 2025  · 381pp  · 119,533 words

Escape From Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

by Erica Thompson  · 6 Dec 2022  · 250pp  · 79,360 words

Discover Caribbean Islands

by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet Pocket Reykjavík & Southwest Iceland

by Lonely Planet  · 139pp  · 34,917 words

Discover Hawaii the Big Island

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The Rough Guide to Barcelona 8

by Jules Brown and Rough Guides  · 2 Feb 2009  · 344pp  · 161,076 words

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport  · 17 Sep 2012  · 197pp  · 60,477 words

Barcelona

by Damien Simonis  · 9 Dec 2010

The Rough Guide to Florence & the Best of Tuscany

by Tim Jepson, Jonathan Buckley and Rough Guides  · 2 Mar 2009  · 416pp  · 204,183 words

Frommer's Kauai

by Jeanette Foster  · 27 Feb 2004  · 260pp  · 130,109 words

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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

by George Gilder  · 16 Jul 2018  · 332pp  · 93,672 words

The Rough Guide to Cape Town, Winelands & Garden Route

by Rough Guides, James Bembridge and Barbara McCrea  · 4 Jan 2018  · 641pp  · 147,719 words

The Rough Guide to New York City

by Martin Dunford  · 2 Jan 2009

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee  · 20 Jan 2014  · 339pp  · 88,732 words

Stephen Fry in America

by Stephen Fry  · 1 Jan 2008  · 362pp  · 95,782 words

Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure

by Alex Honnold and David Roberts  · 2 Nov 2015  · 265pp  · 77,084 words

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

by Thomas Frank  · 15 Mar 2016  · 316pp  · 87,486 words

What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live

by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers  · 2 Jan 2010  · 411pp  · 80,925 words

Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area

by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood  · 2 Jan 2009

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

by Douglas B. Laney  · 4 Sep 2017  · 374pp  · 94,508 words

Diet for a New America

by John Robbins  · 566pp  · 151,193 words

The Rough Guide to Jamaica

by Thomas, Polly,Henzell, Laura.,Coates, Rob.,Vaitilingam, Adam.

The Rough Guide to England

by Rough Guides  · 29 Mar 2018

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

by Peter Singer  · 1 Jan 2015  · 197pp  · 59,656 words

The Rough Guide to Brazil

by Rough Guides  · 22 Sep 2018

Frommer's Seattle 2010

by Karl Samson  · 10 Mar 2010  · 666pp  · 131,148 words

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

The Rough Guide to Finland

by Rough Guides  · 31 May 2010  · 493pp  · 155,660 words

Lonely Planet Malta & Gozo

by Lonely Planet  · 233pp  · 61,033 words

The Rough Guide to New York City

by Rough Guides  · 21 May 2018

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

by Tom Chivers  · 12 Jun 2019  · 289pp  · 92,714 words

Designing Search: UX Strategies for Ecommerce Success

by Greg Nudelman and Pabini Gabriel-Petit  · 8 May 2011

The Rough Guide to Vienna

by Humphreys, Rob  · 311pp  · 168,705 words

Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture

by Deyan Sudjic  · 1 Sep 2010

The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World

by John Michael Greer  · 30 Sep 2009

Frommer's Los Angeles 2010

by Matthew Richard Poole  · 28 Sep 2009  · 356pp  · 186,629 words

Straphanger

by Taras Grescoe  · 8 Sep 2011  · 428pp  · 134,832 words

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

by Matt Ridley  · 395pp  · 116,675 words

Frommer's New Mexico

by Lesley S. King  · 2 Jan 1999  · 420pp  · 219,075 words

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee  · 14 Sep 2018  · 307pp  · 88,180 words

The Rough Guide to Amsterdam

by Martin Dunford, Phil Lee and Karoline Thomas  · 4 Jan 2010  · 537pp  · 135,099 words

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman  · 23 Sep 2013  · 579pp  · 164,339 words

The Rough Guide to Jerusalem

by Daniel Jacobs  · 10 Jan 2000

The Rough Guide to Chile

by Melissa Graham and Andrew Benson  · 11 May 2003

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

by Donovan Hohn  · 1 Jan 2010  · 473pp  · 154,182 words

The Rough Guide to Poland

by Rough Guides  · 18 Sep 2018  · 976pp  · 233,138 words

The Rough Guide to Korea

by Rough Guides  · 24 Sep 2018  · 712pp  · 199,112 words

Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters

by Oliver Franklin-Wallis  · 21 Jun 2023  · 309pp  · 121,279 words

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

by Jake Bittle  · 21 Feb 2023  · 296pp  · 118,126 words

The Rough Guide to Chile & Easter Island (Travel Guide with Free eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 15 Mar 2023  · 885pp  · 238,165 words

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

Mexico - Mexico City

by Rough Guides  · 267pp  · 74,238 words

The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise Your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions

by David Robson  · 7 Mar 2019  · 417pp  · 103,458 words

The Rough Guide to Ireland

by Clements, Paul  · 2 Jun 2015

The Rough Guide to Morocco

by Rough Guides

Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety

by Dalton Conley  · 27 Dec 2008  · 204pp  · 67,922 words

The Rough Guide to Morocco (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 23 Mar 2019  · 1,058pp  · 302,829 words

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

by Yancey Strickler  · 29 Oct 2019  · 254pp  · 61,387 words

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World

by Mark Vanhoenacker  · 14 Aug 2022  · 393pp  · 127,847 words

The Rough Guide to Seoul

by Rough Guides  · 26 Sep 2018  · 305pp  · 87,259 words

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

by Christopher Caldwell  · 21 Jan 2020  · 450pp  · 113,173 words

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy  · 12 Apr 2011  · 666pp  · 181,495 words

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang  · 12 Oct 2020  · 196pp  · 61,981 words

The Rough Guide to Berlin

by Rough Guides  · 550pp  · 151,946 words