New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings.

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The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere <[link removed]> New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway. by Lisa Song, ProPublica, and James Temple, MIT Technology Review

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