EU may allow carbon credits from developing countries to count towards climate goals | Green groups furious at plans to let member states buy controversial carbon offsets from abroad - eviltoast
EU may allow carbon credits from developing countries to count towards climate goals
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Exclusive: Green groups furious at plans to let member states buy controversial carbon offsets from overseas

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Carbon credits have often been based on non-existent contracts with local people, or used for land-grabbing, or reforestation projects in which trees were not maintained and were soon cut down or eaten by cows, or otherwise fraudulent. In any case, letting humans take credit for photosynthesis is flawed emissions accounting.