{"id":49366,"date":"2023-10-23T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=49366"},"modified":"2023-10-23T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:46:47","slug":"the-eu-is-about-to-revive-a-failed-climate-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/10\/23\/the-eu-is-about-to-revive-a-failed-climate-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU is about to revive a failed climate solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since their inception more than 30 years ago, carbon offsets have given false comfort to those seeking easy solutions to the climate crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Encouraging one party to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, while paying another to do the opposite has been a giant diversion: side-tracking us from decarbonising our economies and lives.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/blog\/7910\/shells-scandal-in-china-highlights-the-greenwashing-and-climate-risks-of-carbon-offset-credits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scandal<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fern.org\/publications-insight\/unearned-credit-why-aviation-industry-forest-offsets-are-doomed-to-fail-184\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another<\/a> has engulfed carbon offset schemes. Their credibility has eroded as evidence has mounted that offset projects fail to deliver the climate gains that they promise.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jan\/18\/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> earlier this year found that 90% of the rainforest protection schemes approved by the world\u2019s largest carbon offsets standards agency, Verra, were \u201cworthless\u201d from a climate perspective. This point was reinforced by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/sep\/15\/rainforest-carbon-credit-schemes-misleading-and-ineffective-finds-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study<\/a> from UC Berkeley, which found that the companies had greatly overstated the emissions their projects saved.<\/p>\n<h3>Inherently flawed<\/h3>\n<p>Another study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainforestfoundationuk.org\/new-analysis-finds-leading-global-carbon-offset-schemes-are-failing-forests-people-and-the-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigating<\/a> the largest forest offsetting schemes by companies, governments and the World Bank reached the same conclusion: all had inflated their impact.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem with carbon offsetting schemes, however, lies less with their execution than with their inherent flaws.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially true of <a href=\"https:\/\/carbonmarketwatch.org\/2023\/09\/15\/elastic-methodologies-enable-redd-forestry-projects-to-exaggerate-climate-impact-study-reveals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">land-based offsetting<\/a> \u2013 where polluters claim the effects of their fossil fuel emissions have been neutralised because they\u2019ve paid for trees to be planted, improved farming methods, or temporarily locked carbon into the land by another means.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/10\/05\/exposed-carbon-offsets-linked-to-high-forest-loss-still-on-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Exposed:<\/strong> carbon offsets linked to high forest loss still on sale<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These schemes are predicated on the promise of sucking vast amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere in the future: a future laden with variables and uncertainties. By contrast, every ton of emissions released now will certainly contribute to the floods, heat waves, wildfires and other climate-fuelled chaos unfolding across the planet.<\/p>\n<h3>From global leader to global wrecking ball?<\/h3>\n<p>Yet just as the evidence is hardening around land-based offsets\u2019 fundamental flaws, the European Union (EU) could be on the cusp of agreeing a law that would bolster the market. This would signal a serious reversal of the EU\u2019s status as a global climate leader.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/10\/17\/eu-countries-hammer-out-joint-stance-for-cop28-climate-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EU countries<\/strong> hammer out joint stance for Cop28 climate summit<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The EU chose to <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ec.europa.eu\/eu-action\/eu-emissions-trading-system-eu-ets_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclude<\/a> forest offsets from its Emissions Trading System (ETS), because of concerns about the problems plaguing the voluntary carbon offset market \u2013 that projects could be manipulated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2022-carbon-offsets-renewable-energy\/?leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overstate<\/a> their climate impact.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with potentially disastrous consequences, conservative EU lawmakers are paving the way to reverse this.<\/p>\n<p>Their proposed EU <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/13172-Certification-of-carbon-removals-EU-rules_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carbon Removal Certification Framework<\/a> (CRCF), aimed at establishing new standards for calculating carbon dioxide removals from forests, farms, or yet-to-be developed projects for industrial carbon capture, will also include forest offsets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/08\/25\/cookstove-offsets-carbon-emissions-credits-india-enking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cooking the books<\/strong>: cookstove offsets produce millions of fake emission cuts<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The CRCF would encourage private, self-regulating agencies like Verra to create tradable carbon credits based on agreed standards, allowing the use of carbon removals to offset ongoing emissions by the entities that buy the credits, rather than ensuring companies are obligated to both reduce their emissions and pay for activities that remove carbon.<\/p>\n<p>This dangerous proposal, which is currently before the European Parliament, would reward offsetters with an EU stamp of approval. It would also create the false impression that the use of tradable carbon credits, developed under new EU rules and misleadingly described as \u201ccarbon removals\u201d, will result in lower total emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The opposite is more likely to occur.<\/p>\n<h3>A stark choice<\/h3>\n<p>Like other speculative markets, from crypto currencies to derivatives, the carbon offset market is plagued by cycles of boom and bust. It is currently in a swoon. As the risks of being held liable for false claims have risen, many companies have stopped buying. The <a href=\"https:\/\/carboncredits.com\/carbon-prices-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">price<\/a> for land-based carbon credits has fallen tenfold since the start of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2023\/08\/voluntary-carbon-markets-nature-based-solutions-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">championing<\/a> land-based carbon offsetting as a climate solution are trying to resuscitate the carbon offset market. A major reason, as <a href=\"https:\/\/gspp.berkeley.edu\/assets\/uploads\/page\/Quality-Assessment-of-REDD+-Carbon-Crediting-EXECUTIVE-SUMMARY.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new report<\/a> co-authored by Kathleen McAfee asserts, is that carbon trading has become a self-perpetuating industry rife with conflicts of interest and a bias for producing success stories.<\/p>\n<p>In their quest to revive their industry, the carbon marketeers seem to have found powerful allies among a sizeable number of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).<\/p>\n<p>This week, the European Parliament\u2019s Environment Committee will vote on the CRCF. If MEPs are serious about tackling the climate emergency, then they must call for the EU to ban the sale of carbon credits which would enable climate action to be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>As the world has just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/oct\/05\/gobsmackingly-bananas-scientists-stunned-by-planets-record-september-heat#:~:text=Global%20temperatures%20soared%20to%20a,the%20hottest%20month%20ever%20recorded.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endured<\/a> the hottest July, August and September on record, it is clear that the EU faces a stark choice. It can either give a false climate solution a new lease of life &#8211; or face up to the reality that offsets simply don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dr Kate Dooley<\/strong> is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne. <strong>Dr Kathleen McAfee<\/strong> is Professor Emerita in International Relations at San Francisco State University. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU once led the world in combatting flawed forest offset schemes. Now it\u2019s looking to give them a new lease of life. 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