Here's how to fix carbon offsetting to make it effective

Some scientists and environmentalists are sceptical of companies offsetting their emissions instead of actually reducing them. Image: Unsplash/Jonathan Kemper
Piers Forster
Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds

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