Publications by authors named "Barbara Haya"
Article Synopsis
- Carbon markets are essential for climate strategies, allowing project developers to earn carbon credits through mitigation efforts.
- A review of 14 studies showed that only about 16% of the carbon credits from these projects represent real emission reductions, with varying effectiveness across different types of interventions.
- The findings suggest that major reforms are necessary for carbon crediting mechanisms to effectively contribute to climate change mitigation efforts.
Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions on the assumption that offsets reflect equivalent climate benefits achieved elsewhere. These climate-equivalence claims depend on offsets providing real and additional climate benefits beyond what would have happened, counterfactually, without the offsets project. Here, we evaluate the design of California's prominent forest carbon offsets program and demonstrate that its climate-equivalence claims fall far short on the basis of directly observable evidence.
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