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icmioneline · 10 months

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Ensuring Integrity in Carbon Offsetting: Verification and Validation

by International Carbon Markets Institute

Attention must be paid to the undeniable importance of verification and validation processes in maintaining the integrity of carbon offsetting. A process of crucial significance, carbon offsetting holds potential as a potent tool in the arsenal against climate change, contingent upon robust verification and validation mechanisms.

Carbon offsetting, at its core, entails the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or the removal of GHG from the atmosphere by an entity, which then sells these reductions or removals to another entity to offset its emissions. Such a system provides flexibility and cost-effectiveness, enabling entities to meet their emission reduction targets in a manner most suitable to them.

However, for this system to function effectively and maintain public and stakeholder trust, rigorous verification and validation processes are essential. Without these, the credibility of carbon offsets can be undermined, and their overall efficacy in mitigating climate change compromised.

Verification, in the context of carbon offsetting, typically involves an independent third-party assessment of a project’s reported emission reductions or removals. The verifier ensures that the project follows established methodologies and protocols, and that the reported GHG reductions or removals are accurate, real, and permanent.

Validation, on the other hand, is the process of evaluating a project’s design. It includes an assessment of the project’s baseline scenario — the projected emissions in the absence of the project — and the project’s additionality, i.e., whether the project results in emission reductions or removals beyond those that would have occurred without it.

In order to maintain integrity and prevent conflicts of interest, it is important that validation and verification are conducted by different entities. This separation ensures that a project’s design and performance are evaluated independently of each other.

The methodologies and protocols used for verification and validation are equally crucial. They should be science-based, transparent, and consistent. They should also be adaptable to evolving scientific understanding and to different types of projects, from renewable energy to forest conservation. Moreover, they should consider the potential negative impacts of projects, such as biodiversity loss or infringements on local communities’ rights.

For the verification and validation processes to be effective, they need to be supported by robust institutional frameworks. These include strong legal and regulatory systems that establish clear rules for carbon offsetting, protect the rights of all stakeholders, and provide remedies for breaches. Institutions responsible for overseeing carbon offsetting should be independent, transparent, accountable, and equipped with the necessary technical expertise.

Incorporating technology, such as remote sensing and data analytics, into verification and validation processes can enhance their accuracy and efficiency. However, care should be taken to ensure that the use of technology is not at the expense of local participation and knowledge.

In conclusion, verification and validation are indispensable in ensuring the integrity of carbon offsetting. They are the gatekeepers that maintain the system’s credibility and its efficacy in mitigating climate change. However, their successful implementation requires not only rigorous methodologies and protocols but also robust institutional frameworks and the judicious use of technology.

Read more at International Carbon Markets Institute.

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oyugreenusa · 11 months

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Carbon Offsetting: Balancing the Carbon Footprint for a Greener Future

In today's world, the effects of global warming are becoming more and more apparent. With rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and extreme weather events occurring all over the globe, it is clear that something needs to be done to protect our planet for future generations. One way we can help reduce our carbon footprint is through carbon offsetting.

Carbon offsetting is a process by which individuals or companies purchase credits from organizations that invest in green energy projects such as renewable energy sources like solar or wind power. These credits represent an amount of carbon dioxide emissions saved from being released into the atmosphere due to these clean energy investments made by these organizations; thus reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. By purchasing these offsets, individuals and businesses can balance out their own personal or corporate CO2 emission levels with those saved elsewhere — essentially making them “carbon neutral” on a net basis across their operations globally!

There are many benefits associated with investing in offsets: not only does it help reduce your environmental impact but also helps support sustainable development initiatives around the world while helping fight climate change at a large scale too! Additionally investing in offsets provides economic opportunities for local communities who may benefit directly from jobs created through green investments supported by purchased credits - creating even further positive impacts beyond just reducing one’s footprint alone!

Ultimately though no matter how much you try to minimize your impact on climate change – there will always be some unavoidable emissions produced as part of day-to-day life whether it's driving cars/trucks/buses etc., flying planes, etc. That said however if everyone were willing to make small changes towards balancing out their respective footprints then together we could start making strides towards achieving real meaningful progress against this ever-growing problem facing us today - ultimately leading us closer towards realizing a greener future for ourselves & generations yet come alike.

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OYU Green provides innovative carbon credit and carbon trading solutions to businesses looking to offset their carbon footprint. With a team of experts, the company helps clients identify and invest in carbon projects that provide both environmental and social benefits. OYU Green's comprehensive approach to carbon trading ensures that clients meet their regulatory and sustainability targets while promoting a sustainable future for all. The company's carbon credit solutions provide an efficient and cost-effective way for businesses to reduce their carbon emissions and contribute to the fight against climate change.

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mostroverde · 11 months

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olivegaea · 2 years

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mostlysignssomeportents · 8 months

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Greenwashing set Canada on fire

On September 22, I'm (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.

As a teenager growing up in Ontario, I always envied the kids who spent their summers tree planting; they'd come back from the bush in September, insect-chewed and leathery, with new muscle, incredible stories, thousands of dollars, and a glow imparted by the knowledge that they'd made a new forest with their own blistered hands.

I was too unathletic to follow them into the bush, but I spent my summers doing my bit, ringing doorbells for Greenpeace to get my neighbours fired up about the Canadian pulp-and-paper industry, which wasn't merely clear-cutting our old-growth forests – it was also poisoning the Great Lakes system with PCBs, threatening us all.

At the time, I thought of tree-planting as a small victory – sure, our homegrown, rapacious, extractive industry was able to pollute with impunity, but at least the government had reined them in on forests, forcing them to pay my pals to spend their summers replacing the forests they'd fed into their mills.

I was wrong. Last summer's Canadian wildfires blanketed the whole east coast and midwest in choking smoke as millions of trees burned and millions of tons of CO2 were sent into the atmosphere. Those wildfires weren't just an effect of the climate emergency: they were made far worse by all those trees planted by my pals in the eighties and nineties.

Writing in the New York Times, novelist Claire Cameron describes her own teen years working in the bush, planting row after row of black spruces, precisely spaced at six-foot intervals:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opinion/wildfires-treeplanting-timebomb.html

Cameron's summer job was funded by the logging industry, whose self-pegulated, self-assigned "penalty" for clearcutting diverse forests of spruce, pine and aspen was to pay teenagers to create a tree farm, at nine cents per sapling (minus camp costs).

Black spruces are made to burn, filled with flammable sap and equipped with resin-filled cones that rely on fire, only opening and dropping seeds when they're heated. They're so flammable that firefighters call them "gas on a stick."

Cameron and her friends planted under brutal conditions: working long hours in blowlamp heat and dripping wet bulb humidity, amidst clouds of stinging insects, fingers blistered and muscles aching. But when they hit rock bottom and were ready to quit, they'd encourage one another with a rallying cry: "Let's go make a forest!"

Planting neat rows of black spruces was great for the logging industry: the even spacing guaranteed that when the trees matured, they could be easily reaped, with ample space between each near-identical tree for massive shears to operate. But that same monocropped, evenly spaced "forest" was also optimized to burn.

It burned.

The climate emergency's frequent droughts turn black spruces into "something closer to a blowtorch." The "pines in lines" approach to reforesting was an act of sabotage, not remediation. Black spruces are thirsty, and they absorb the water that moss needs to thrive, producing "kindling in the place of fire retardant."

Cameron's column concludes with this heartbreaking line: "Now when I think of that summer, I don’t think that I was planting trees at all. I was planting thousands of blowtorches a day."

The logging industry committed a triple crime. First, they stole our old-growth forests. Next, they (literally) planted a time-bomb across Ontario's north. Finally, they stole the idealism of people who genuinely cared about the environment. They taught a generation that resistance is futile, that anything you do to make a better future is a scam, and you're a sucker for falling for it. They planted nihilism with every tree.

That scam never ended. Today, we're sold carbon offsets, a modern Papal indulgence. We are told that if we pay the finance sector, they can absolve us for our climate sins. Carbon offsets are a scam, a market for lemons. The "offset" you buy might be a generated by a fake charity like the Nature Conservancy, who use well-intentioned donations to buy up wildlife reserves that can't be logged, which are then converted into carbon credits by promising not to log them:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/12/fairy-use-tale/#greenwashing

The credit-card company that promises to plant trees every time you use your card? They combine false promises, deceptive advertising, and legal threats against critics to convince you that you're saving the planet by shopping:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/17/do-well-do-good-do-nothing/#greenwashing

The carbon offset world is full of scams. The carbon offset that made the thing you bought into a "net zero" product? It might be a forest that already burned:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/11/a-market-for-flaming-lemons/#money-for-nothing

The only reason we have carbon offsets is that market cultists have spent forty years convincing us that actual regulation is impossible. In the neoliberal learned helplessness mind-palace, there's no way to simply say, "You may not log old-growth forests." Rather, we have to say, "We will 'align your incentives' by making you replace those forests."

The Climate Ad Project's "Murder Offsets" video deftly punctures this bubble. In it, a detective points his finger at the man who committed the locked-room murder in the isolated mansion. The murderer cheerfully admits that he did it, but produces a "murder offset," which allowed him to pay someone else not to commit a murder, using market-based price-discovery mechanisms to put a dollar-figure on the true worth of a murder, which he duly paid, making his kill absolutely fine:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

What's the alternative to murder offsets/carbon credits? We could ask our expert regulators to decide which carbon intensive activities are necessary and which ones aren't, and ban the unnecessary ones. We could ask those regulators to devise remediation programs that actually work. After all, there are plenty of forests that have already been clearcut, plenty that have burned. It would be nice to know how we can plant new forests there that aren't "thousands of blowtorches."

If that sounds implausible to you, then you've gotten trapped in the neoliberal mind-palace.

The term "regulatory capture" was popularized by far-right Chicago School economists who were promoting "public choice theory." In their telling, regulatory capture is inevitable, because companies will spend whatever it takes to get the government to pass laws making what they do legal, and making competing with them into a crime:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/13/public-choice/#ajit-pai-still-terrible

This is true, as far as it goes. Capitalists hate capitalism, and if an "entrepreneur" can make it illegal to compete with him, he will. But while this is a reasonable starting-point, the place that Public Choice Theory weirdos get to next is bonkers. They say that since corporations will always seek to capture their regulators, we should abolish regulators.

They say that it's impossible for good regulations to exist, and therefore the only regulation that is even possible is to let businesses do whatever they want and wait for the invisible hand to sweep away the bad companies. Rather than creating hand-washing rules for restaurant kitchens, we should let restaurateurs decide whether it's economically rational to make us shit ourselves to death. The ones that choose poorly will get bad online reviews and people will "vote with their dollars" for the good restaurants.

And if the online review site decides to sell "reputation management" to restaurants that get bad reviews? Well, soon the public will learn that the review site can't be trusted and they'll take their business elsewhere. No regulation needed! Unleash the innovators! Set the job-creators free!

This is the Ur-nihilism from which all the other nihilism springs. It contends that the regulations we have – the ones that keep our buildings from falling down on our heads, that keep our groceries from poisoning us, that keep our cars from exploding on impact – are either illusory, or perhaps the forgotten art of a lost civilization. Making good regulations is like embalming Pharaohs, something the ancients practiced in mist-shrouded, unrecoverable antiquity – and that may not have happened at all.

Regulation is corruptible, but it need not be corrupt. Regulation, like science, is a process of neutrally adjudicated, adversarial peer-review. In a robust regulatory process, multiple parties respond to a fact-intensive question – "what alloys and other properties make a reinforced steel joist structurally sound?" – with a mix of robust evidence and self-serving bullshit and then proceed to sort the two by pantsing each other, pointing out one another's lies.

The regulator, an independent expert with no conflicts of interest, sorts through the claims and counterclaims and makes a rule, showing their workings and leaving the door open to revisiting the rule based on new evidence or challenges to the evidence presented.

But when an industry becomes concentrated, it becomes unregulatable. 100 small and medium-sized companies will squabble. They'll struggle to come up with a common lie. There will always be defectors in their midst. Their conduct will be legible to external experts, who will be able to spot the self-serving BS.

But let that industry dwindle to a handful of giant companies, let them shrink to a number that will fit around a boardroom table, and they will sit down at a table and agree on a cozy arrangement that fucks us all over to their benefit. They will become so inbred that the only people who understand how they work will be their own insiders, and so top regulators will be drawn from their own number and be hopelessly conflicted.

When the corporate sector takes over, regulatory capture is inevitable. But corporate takeover isn't inevitable. We can – and have, and will again – fight corporate power, with antitrust law, with unions, and with consumer rights groups. Knowing things is possible. It simply requires that we keep the entities that profit by our confusion poor and thus weak.

The thing is, corporations don't always lie about regulations. Take the fight over working encryption, which – once again – the UK government is trying to ban:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/24/signal-app-warns-it-will-quit-uk-if-law-weakens-end-to-end-encryption

Advocates for criminalising working encryption insist that the claims that this is impossible are the same kind of self-serving nonsense as claims that banning clearcutting of old-growth forests is impossible:

https://twitter.com/JimBethell/status/1699339739042599276

They say that when technologists say, "We can't make an encryption system that keeps bad guys out but lets good guys in," that they are being lazy and unimaginative. "I have faith in you geeks," they said. "Go nerd harder! You'll figure it out."

Google and Apple and Meta say that selectively breakable encryption is impossible. But they also claim that a bunch of eminently possible things are impossible. Apple claims that it's impossible to have a secure device where you get to decide which software you want to use and where publishers aren't deprive of 30 cents on every dollar you spend. Google says it's impossible to search the web without being comprehensively, nonconsensually spied upon from asshole to appetite. Meta insists that it's impossible to have digital social relationship without having your friendships surveilled and commodified.

While they're not lying about encryption, they are lying about these other things, and sorting out the lies from the truth is the job of regulators, but that job is nearly impossible thanks to the fact that everyone who runs a large online service tells the same lies – and the regulators themselves are alumni of the industry's upper eschelons.

Logging companies know a lot about forests. When we ask, "What is the best way to remediate our forests," the companies may well have useful things to say. But those useful things will be mixed with actively harmful lies. The carefully cultivated incompetence of our regulators means that they can't tell the difference.

Conspiratorialism is characterized as a problem of what people believe, but the true roots of conspiracy belief isn't what we believe, it's how we decide what to believe. It's not beliefs, it's epistemology.

Because most of us aren't qualified to sort good reforesting programs from bad ones. And even if we are, we're probably not also well-versed enough in cryptography to sort credible claims about encryption from wishful thinking. And even if we're capable of making that determination, we're not experts in food hygiene or structural engineering.

Daily life in the 21st century means resolving a thousand life-or-death technical questions every day. Our regulators – corrupted by literally out-of-control corporations – are no longer reliable sources of ground truth on these questions. The resulting epistemological chaos is a cancer that gnaws away at our resolve to do anything about it. It is a festering pool where nihilism outbreaks are incubated.

The liberal response to conspiratorialism is mockery. In her new book Doppelganger, Naomi Klein tells of how right-wing surveillance fearmongering about QR-code "vaccine passports" was dismissed with a glib, "Wait until they hear about cellphones!"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

But as Klein points out, it's not good that our cellphones invade our privacy in the way that right-wing conspiracists thought that vaccine passports might. The nihilism of liberalism – which insists that things can't be changed except through market "solutions" – leads us to despair.

By contrast, leftism – a muscular belief in democratic, publicly run planning and action – offers a tonic to nihilism. We don't have to let logging companies decide whether a forest can be cut, or what should be planted when it is. We can have nice things. The art of finding out what's true or prudent didn't die with the Reagan Revolution (or the discount Canadian version, the Mulroney Malaise). The truth is knowable. Doing stuff is possible. Things don't have to be on fire.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/16/murder-offsets/#pulped-and-papered

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Air Chathams' carbon offset journey with TTI and CarbonClick

Integrated voluntary flight offsetting

About Air Chathams Proudly New Zealand-owned and operated. Flying over the skies of New Zealand, Australia, and the South Pacific, including Whakatāne, Kāpiti Coast, Whanganui, Wellington, Christchurch, Chatham Islands and Norfolk Island. Air Chathams was founded with a simple objective: to offer aviation solutions for a remote, isolated island community so they could further develop into the thriving economy we see today. They are a customer-focused and solution-orientated airline, who thrive on being innovative problem solvers, that deliver safe, efficient, and sustainable outcomes for the many communities throughout Aotearoa and the Pacific that they serve.

About TTI (Travel Technology Interactive) Travel Technology Interactive is an international and leading technology company listed on EURONEXT Growth in Paris, has been an AMADEUS IT GROUP worldwide business partner since 2005, and has also been recognized as an IATA Simplifying the Business (StB) Preferred Partner since 2006. TTI provides seamless cloudification for end-to-end Passenger Service Systems (PSS) and Cargo Management Systems (CMS) for the transportation industry. Headquartered in France, TTI offices are located worldwide: in Brazil, Singapore, and Panama.

The challenge Air Chathams set out on a mission to shrink their carbon footprint across all facets of their operations. They were eager to involve their customers in this quest and aimed to have 30% of passengers choosing to offset their carbon emissions when booking flights by May 2025.

To reach this ambitious target, they needed a solution that seamlessly integrated into their booking system, which is managed by Passenger Service System (PSS) provider Travel Technology Interactive (TTI). Close collaboration among Air Chathams, TTI, and CarbonClick was essential to create a simple, user-friendly, and integrated solution.

The solution CarbonClick and TTI joined forces to pioneer the very first end-to-end carbon offset Internet Booking Engine (IBE) solution that is fully integrated into a single PSS. Working closely with Air Chathams, CarbonClick ensured the service's visual and tonal alignment with their booking process, as an integral part of ancillary offerings.

When booking a flight, passengers now have the option to calculate their carbon footprint and learn how their decision to offset emissions contributes to making a positive impact on the planet and society. Every contribution is directly and instantly traceable to the climate projects it supports, providing passengers with a clear and immediate understanding of their positive impact.

The cost of the offset is displayed as a separate line item in the total booking cost.

The outcome Traditionally, the extensive time and expense required for such an integrated solution deterred many airlines from implementing similar programmes. As a result, only a handful of global carriers have adopted end-to-end integrated initiatives to date.

The partnership between TTI and CarbonClick empowers all of TTI's airline clients to seamlessly implement the solution and incorporate it into their passenger booking systems in just a matter of days. Air Chathams proudly became the first TTI customer to adopt this innovative carbon offset solution.

Air Chathams customers not only can easily add the carbon offset ancillary when booking online, but TTI and CarbonClick ensured that their reservations team were able to easily add the carbon offset to their customers bookings over the phone or email too, via the backend of TTI. This was an important element for Air Chathams as their customers highly value the ability to talk to a real-life person to make a reservation.

Why Air Chathams chose to work with CarbonClick “CarbonClick’s project range and quality appealed to us. They could offer us a local project to include into our mix, and their rigorous selection methodology assured us of the quality of the projects. With Air Chathams being the first TTI airline to integrate the solution into our booking system, we found CarbonClick to be very flexible to accommodate our needs and requirements. Another benefit was that CarbonClick provided us with a templated supporting webpage which we could set up within minutes. This webpage helps tell our sustainability story and engage our customers in offsetting at any stage. We are also related to CarbonClick due to being a fellow New Zealand business.” Estelle Bray-Taylor, Marketing and Communications Advisor, Air Chathams

“At Air Chathams we recognise our role within aviation to mitigate our climate footprint internally and in the communities, we do business with, for the long-term. That is why partnering with CarbonClick enables us to deliver simple and transparent carbon offsetting options for our customers. New Zealanders of all ages are aware of climate change and its adverse effects. So, collaborating and working with CarbonClick empowers the Airline to offer verified off-setting projects through our online booking system. It’s a simple and intuitive process to offset carbon emissions when purchasing flights through our website and follow the progression of meaningful and transparent carbon offsetting projects both home and abroad on CarbonClick’s digital platform. CarbonClick and Air Chathams share the same origins in Aotearoa and a joint ethos to effectively reduce greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and long may it this partnership continue.” Duane Emeny, Chief Operating Officer, Air Chathams

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CarbonClick appointed as the designated offsetting partner for the Singapore Airshow

Simplicity and accessibility is the key to encouraging consumers to offset and CarbonClick has partnered with the Singapore Airshow to empower attendees to offset the environmental impact of their travel to the show. Attendees can seamlessly navigate a user-friendly integrated process on the Singapore Airshow’s respective trade and public homepages to offset their flight emissions. This initiative not only allows participants to take direct action but also helps support the global mission to make a positive impact on climate change at every available point.

Through the platform, visitors can delve into their individual climate impact, gaining insights into their carbon footprint, and explore information about the impactful and high-quality projects they support through CarbonClick’s offsetting projects. One of the five chosen projects is the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve (REDD+) project in Indonesia. Rimba Raya provides a buffer zone between the palm oil industry and the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to one of the last remaining wild populations of orangutans on earth - more information can be found on our website. CarbonClick's innovative approach ensures that offsetting becomes an integral part of the attendee experience, transforming each journey into an opportunity to make a real difference.

Set against the backdrop of aviation excellence, the Singapore Airshow is where industry leaders and enthusiasts converge. From February 20 to 25, 2024, the Changi Exhibition Centre will host this iconic event. CarbonClick is poised to make its mark by offering attendees a chance to join the movement towards a more sustainable future by offering its offsetting capabilities whilst research into reduction and removal is still being developed in the aviation industry.

About CarbonClick CarbonClick helps businesses and individuals take meaningful climate action with simple and transparent carbon offsetting. CarbonClick’s platform enables businesses to tackle emissions that cannot yet be reduced, by empowering companies and individuals to offset carbon via highly vetted climate projects that align with UN Sustainable Development Goals. CarbonClick provides end-to-end transparency to both businesses and consumers, ensuring everyone engaged is able to see the direct impact of the offsetting. Headquartered in New Zealand, CarbonClick has achieved B Corp certification for its commitment to use business as a force for good, meeting and maintaining the highest standard of social and environmental impact.

ORIGINALLY FOUND ON- Source: CarbonClick(https://www.carbonclick.com/news-views/carbonclick-appointed-as-the-designated-offsetting-partner-for-the-singapore-airshow)

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