Is the government's offset standard up to the mark?

James S Murray
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Offset providers are angry over the government's sidelining of successful emission reduction projects – and it's all Coldplay's fault

Personally, I blame Coldplay. It was the revelation back in mid-2006, that an attempt to offset the band's carbon emissions through the planting of mango trees had been thwarted by the arid soil of...

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