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Carbon offsets are activities that reduce greenhouse gases and that are then used to compensate for emissions that occur elsewhere.
But virtually all offsets sold today are temporary, generally working on a scale of decades or a century.
Politically, they distract from the urgent task of decarbonizing the economy, authors say.
Authors: Only those offsets that remove or permanently sequester carbon dioxide should be permitted to continue.
Authors: Voluntary market has grown in value by 600 percent from 2018 to 2021 alone.
They say voluntary market is self-regulated and has been criticized for lack of project quality and reliability.
Authors: Nonpermanent carbon offsets cannot be fixed and need to be phased out.
Authors say it is time to phase out nonpermanent emissions, not to get rid of them.
EU has already begun this process, and other countries should follow suit.
Governments should end the practice of accepting credits generated by the voluntary market in domestic compliance markets.
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