SBTi’s Controversial Shift Has Given a New Lifeline to the Carbon Offset Ruse

“Carbon offsets” – paying for someone else’s climate action, while counting it as your own― have been increasingly challenged over the past few years. Yet just as they were sputtering on the deathbed of climate credibility, the directors of the UN-backed Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the main global standard-setting body for corporate climate plans, gave [...]