Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.

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A Nonprofit Promised to Preserve Wildlife. Then It Made Millions Claiming It Could Cut Down Trees. <[link removed]> The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change. by Lisa Song, and James Temple, MIT Technology Review

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