Even if they are mostly scams: The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle | The New Yorker
The main subject of the story, Renat Heuberger, founded South Pole as a business for trading carbon offsets – which, as described in the above story and elsewhere, were not what they seemed. Indeed, much if not most carbon offset schemes have been scams that enable the wealthy to feel virtuous while jetting about the globe in their private jets. Read the whole article, above (it’s in a publication that apparently pays by the word so its really long.)
Like many climate activists, Heuberger has traveled and continues to travel all over the world.
