When you go to buy something off Etsy, you’re assured that “Etsy offsets carbon emissions from every delivery.” Shopify offers a program like this too. You might run into the same thing buying an ...

This story appeared first in WFAE's weekly climate newsletter, which is out Thursdays. Sign up at WFAE.org/newsletters. Hundreds of companies nationwide are buying ...

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 ...

An aerial view of Catawba College, which was certified as carbon neutral in 2023. That's in part because renewable energy installations like the rooftop solar panels at right but also because the ...

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 ...

After more than three decades on Wall Street — first at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and then at Bank of America Corp. — Tom Montag thought he’d seen most forms of financial wizardry. Then Hank Paulson ...

2024 was the hottest year on record, causing floods, droughts, wildfires, and other extreme weather events. Experts say lowering carbon emissions can slow the warming trend. So how do we do that? All ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Carbon offset projects claiming to curb deforestation are ...

Replacing windows and swapping out a furnace for a heat pump can save energy and reduce emissions. [Photo: Tristan Spinski for The Washington Post/Getty Images] BY The Conversation Under pressure from ...

VLM Group, a Shanghai-based investment and wealth management firm, today announced the launch of a new Carbon-Offset and Biodiversity Initiative to reduce its operational footprint and support global ...