Greta Thunberg leaves carbon offsetting meeting urging attendees to 'stop greenwashing' – video

A video of Greta Thunberg leaving a meeting on improving the integrity of the voluntary carbon market has appeared from Cop26. As the climate activist leaves, Thunburg tells those in attendance to 'stop greenwashing'. Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered who attended yesterday's meeting, has been working with Mark Carney on a task force to improve the quality of carbon credits and scale it to a $100bn-a-year market. But offsets, often used by companies to claim they are carbon neutral, have been dogged by untrustworthy claims and face a major credibility problem

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4 November 2021

The Guardian