Offsets

Retailer becomes first major company to back scheme designed to cut emissions while protecting children's health

Environmental Audit Commitment welcomes potential improvement to planning system, but warns ministers need to introduce more safeguards to controversial policy

Minister slams 'particularly contemptible scam' that aims to take advantage of people's desire to make ethical investments

Winter Olympics seeks to make travel to and from Games 'carbon neutral' through investment in a portfolio of emission reduction projects

Body intends to offset 2.4 million tonnes of carbon emissions from tournament and preceding Confederations Cup

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson argues businesses and habitats stand to benefit from the government's new biodiversity offsetting plan

Campaigners angered by plans that would require firms to create new green spaces to "offset" impact of developments

New functionality aims to improve search results, as German start-up announces plan to donate $1m to tree-planting programmes

Peer-reviewed methodology calculates projects supported in India and Kenya have reduced emissions by 126,500 tonnes

New research finds using existing, high-integrity carbon credits would meet emission goals at around $4 per tonne