Carbon offsets are an easy way to declare that your organisation is "carbon neutral".
Measure your emissions, plant that many trees and boom, you're neutral.
There are so many problems with this. Just a handful:
The best way around offsets is what the target really is anyway - reducing your output in the first place.
Allbirds, the shoe and apparel company, have laid this out spectacularly on their sustainable practices page. As they say, it doesn't take 30 years to create an offset program and I totally agree.
Offsets are needed but as they put it, it's chapter one - not the whole playbook.
It starts with an immediate commitment, some quick wins, and riding the momentum of those wins.
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