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PostApril 29, 2021

The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere

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New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway. An article in the MIT Technology Review by James Temple and Lisa Strong discusses California's carbon offset program. 

Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/29/1017811/california-climate-policy-carbon-credits-cause-co2-pollution/

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