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 ...

The next time you buy a plane ticket or get a package delivered, you might see a pop-up on the website: the chance to buy a carbon offset with your purchase. That offset is basically a promise, says ...

Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel out” their emissions. But they just pay companies to pollute, with little benefit to show for it. Carbon offsets claim to allow companies to “cancel ...