Cookstoves: Is the multibillion dollar carbon offset market flawed?
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Published 2023-12-15
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Carbon offsetting, as it’s known, is often touted as a business-friendly way to tackle future climate disasters.
It means that rather than simply reducing emissions, polluting companies can pay them to be reduced somewhere else.
But analysis by Channel 4 News raises new questions about whether this multi-billion pound market is actually delivering the benefits it claims.
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All Comments (21)
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This is the type of accounting gymnastics we are doing instead of phasing out fossil fuels... What the world is sacrificing in biodiversity just to satisfy the shareholders of certain companies is insane.
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A cast iron stove/heater with a chimney would be much more fuel efficient and last until they run out of trees.
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As usual, a company seems to have inserted themselves into the problem and caused another one. Just imagine, this whole thing could've been avoided if they just made and distributed better stoves...if they actually wanted to make a difference. But it seems this is just for corporate accounting purposes.
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They sure know how to cash in.
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"Everybody is making the best they can to manage the climate change", says the CEO, leaving out the crucial part of "and making as much money as possible while doing so."
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This is great journalism about greenwashing by these financial firms
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Carbon offsets: "Paying someone else to turn off their lights so you don't have to."
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give them the damn stoves. cheap-o rich people and silly market-based solutions.
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We can all see that there's merit in this project though the management looks suspect. However my biggest take is that two of the planet's fossil-fuel behemoths are commendably very keen in 'decarbonising' poor Africans while apparently oblivious of their own monstrous carbon footprints.
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So the stoves don’t last past a year and the figures are wildly over ambitious. Meanwhile, what about the toxic particulates, deforestation and carbon footprint related to cooking on gas stoves in richer countries? What a farce.
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Everything is going on just as those above us have planned, irrespective of our religion. And still many of us stubbornly refuse to open our eyes and see the big trap we are being lured into because we are too comfortable with our foolish ignorance that gives us a false sense of peace of mind. Then finally when it brutally and fatally pains, then we cry out in vain. oh how pathetic we are.
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The lower particulates from engineered stoves alone would make this worth it.
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Blaming the poorest as usual for the western worlds problems
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Worldwide ban on carbon credits before all this goes wrong, as usual the rich big businesses making money from the poor.
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It's a scam.
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Shame shame shame for humankind
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Stop all this hating on carbon
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Channel 4 News’s Cathy Newman kept inaccurately paraphrasing Jordan Peterson by saying “so you’re saying [something that he actually didn’t say]” and guised it as a confirmatory question. It was obvious that it’s a blatant attempt to make Jordan look bad to the audience. Well, it backfired and Cathy Newman looks like a fool for incorrectly paraphrasing Jordan over 20 times in a half hour interview. Cathy: we detest you. Your career is ruined and you should leave Channel 4 News!
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Also... On December 13 2009, professor, prophet, and soothsayer Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years. Was he right or WRONG
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The Canada Association of Cathy Newman Critics is STRONGLY sending our STRONGEST criticism and most SEVERE condemnation against Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News for what she did on Jan 16, 2018 in her interview with Jordan Peterson. She paraphrased incorrectly and kept putting words in Dr. Peterson’s mouth. It backfired and Cathy Newman ended her career right there. Cathy: we STRONGLY dislike you and wish you the very worst in your marriage, life, and children’s lives.
