The credibility of carbon offset mechanisms is threatened by many issues related to their true
effectiveness. We advocate that these issues cannot be effectively addressed without a …

Learning from the quantum and information theories, we provide a new definition of value,
which is expected to help economists relax assumptions and loosen established economic …

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 …

Efforts to avert dangerous climate change by conserving and restoring natural habitats are
hampered by concerns over the credibility of methods used to quantify their long-term …

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 …

Carbon offsets are a widely used climate policy instrument that can reduce mitigation costs
and generate important environmental and social co-benefits. However, they can increase …

The number of voluntary interventions seeking to generate carbon offsets by reducing
deforestation and forest degradation, generally known as REDD+ projects, has increased …

It is unclear how much carbon should be stored in temporary and risky offsets to compensate
one ton of CO2 emissions. Here we cast the social value of an offset (SVO), measured in …

Credit credibility threatens forests spread logging of old-growth stands, the EU is on track to
fail its 2030 goals. Pressure on Europe's biomass-rich oldgrowth forests is high and rising …

As an important initiative of climate action, REDD+ has been increasingly discussed in
global policy arena. But delay in wider scale yet full-fledged implementation and its poor …