No matter how responsibly we try to live, it's impossible not to create pollution in some way. How we eat, how we power our homes, and how we get around create some amount of pollution. But just ...

With its eyes set on a 2035 net-zero emissions target, Yale University has turned toward carbon offsets for answers. According to Amber Garrard, director of the Office of Sustainability, the ...

Carbon offsets exist within a flawed ecosystem but they should not be disregarded as an interim measure. It is on the industry to reform a broken system. Carbon offsets are a way for companies to ...

The aviation industry is facing a critical challenge: a shortage of airline carbon credits and there’s a very high probability that it’ll result in more expensive airfares. But what is a carbon offset ...

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

Duke recently achieved carbon neutrality — but this doesn’t mean the University’s emissions equal zero. In reality, this historic achievement was made possible by both emissions reductions and the ...

Penn researchers jointly published a paper with academics at the University of Oxford that found the practice of carbon offsets inefficient. The paper — put out in the Annual Review of Environment and ...

The response of Taylor Swift’s spokesperson to December reports that the pop star had generated 128 tons of carbon dioxide from private jet travel in just three months was simple: Before the start of ...

Discover how carbon taxes penalize greenhouse gas emissions, encouraging environmentally-friendly practices, and see key examples of global adoption and impact.