Rethinking Socio-Economic Systems to Mitigate Environmental Crises

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[...] These measures are part of a strategy for a rational and sustainable ecological transition in the face of environmental crises. List of bibliographic references used: The voluntary compensation : from theory to practice : Agency for the Environment and the Energy Management (ADEME) (2022). ISBN electronic 979-1-02971-825-0 ( [...]

[...] (https://www.unognewsroom.org/story/en/1574/state-of-the-global-climate-in-2022-wmo) Systematic assessment of the achieved emission reductions of carbon crediting projects. Benedict S. Probst, Malte Toetzke, Andreas Kontoleon, Laura Díaz Anadón, Jan C.Minx , Barbara K. Haya, Lambert Schneider, Philipp A. Trotter, Thales A. P. West, Annelise Gill-Wiehl & Volker H. Hoffmann (2024). Nature Communications. (DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-53645-z). [...]

[...] Society has adopted several strategies to limit environmental crisis such as carbon dioxide (CO2) named carbon offsetting. This is based on carbon credits (one carbon credit is equivalent to one ton of CO2 avoided) and financing projects that reduce or absorb CO2, aiming for a total amount of CO2 zero, in order to offset the emissions of CO2. The problem with this strategy is the overestimation of the climate impact of credits: they declare a quantity of CO2 avoided or eliminated which, in reality, has never been reduced. [...]