International Civil Aviation Day: Say no to carbon offsets for aviation!
3 Dec 2020
[Português abaixo] Today marks International Civil Aviation Day, and we’re launching a case study explaining how the International Civil Aviation Authority’s (ICAO) plans to offset emissions from flying through buying carbon offsets—rather than by reducing flying—will lead to significant harmful impacts on communities, forests and the climate. “Vallourec: junk offset credits through charcoal production for the iron and steel sector in Brazil” looks at a recent Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project and the likely impacts that it is having. It …
