Offsets
Investment in natural climate solutions drove an 264% increase in the volume of offsets generated through forestry and land use activities between 2016 and 2018, making REDD+ the most popular offset type. This is really good news, since protecting and restoring forests, wetlands, mangroves and other carbon sinks has multiple other benefits like biodiversity enhancement, erosion prevention and flood protection. I hear lots of criticism of carbon offsetting, mostly because people don’t like companies paying for offsets while continuing to pollute. But nature doesn’t care where or how carbon is absorbed. We need both: less emissions and more sinks.
— Wayne Visser
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