The concept of net-zero carbon emissions has emerged from physical climate science.
However, it is operationalized through social, political and economic systems. We identify …

This review explains the science behind the drive for global net zero emissions and why this
is needed to halt the ongoing rise in global temperatures. We document how the concept of …

Carbon offsets from voluntary avoided-deforestation projects are generated on the basis of
performance in relation to ex ante deforestation baselines. We examined the effects of 26 …

Carbon pricing has been hailed as an essential component of any sensible climate policy.
Internalize the externalities, the logic goes, and polluters will change their behavior. The …

Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate
their greenhouse gas emissions on the assumption that offsets reflect equivalent climate …

Improved forest management (IFM) has the potential to remove and store large quantities of
carbon from the atmosphere. Around the world, 293 IFM offset projects have produced 11 …

Most companies include carbon offsets in their net-zero strategy. However, many offset
projects are poor quality and fail to reduce emissions as claimed. Here we focus on the …

A perennial challenge for the administrative state is to answer the" democracy question":
how can the bureaucracy be squared with the idea of self-government of, by, and for a …

Summary Achieving the Paris Agreement 1.5° C target requires a reversal of the growing
atmospheric concentrations of methane, which is about 80 times more potent than CO 2 on a …

California operates a large forest carbon offsets program that credits carbon stored in forests
across the continental United States and parts of coastal Alaska. These credits can be sold …