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Carbon credits undercut climate change actions says report


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science-environment-34042115BBC News:

The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine did not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study.

 

The authors say that offsets created under a UN scheme "significantly undermined" efforts to tackle climate change.

 

The credits may have increased emissions by 600 million tonnes.

 

In some projects, chemicals known to warm the climate were created and then destroyed to claim cash.

As a result of political horse trading at UN negotiations on climate change, countries like Russia and the Ukraine were allowed to create carbon credits from activities like curbing coal waste fires, or restricting gas emissions from petroleum production.

 

Under the UN scheme, called Joint Implementation, they then were able to sell those credits to the European Union's carbon market. Companies bought the offsets rather than making their own more expensive, emissions cuts.

 

But this study, from the Stockholm Environment Institute, says the vast majority of Russian and Ukrainian credits were in fact, "hot air" - no actual emissions were reduced.

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Climate change cash cow con (try saying that three times fast!)


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