{"id":90020,"date":"2025-08-21T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90020"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:41:52","slug":"is-carbon-offsetting-a-multibillion-dollar-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/is-carbon-offsetting-a-multibillion-dollar-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Is carbon offsetting a multibillion dollar scam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k12ZwWpmcfkAJJDGWzQ\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nSome experts are calling avoided deforestation carbon offsets \u201ca scam\u201d that produces \u201cphantom credits.\u201d In a recent study, researchers examined dozens of avoided deforestation projects and determined that only 6% of the offset credits generated by these projects represented a real reduction in emissions.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some experts are calling avoided deforestation carbon offsets \u201ca scam\u201d that produces \u201cphantom credits.\u201d In a recent study, researchers examined dozens of avoided deforestation projects and determined that only 6% of the offset credits generated by these projects represented a real reduction in emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[164,38143,3225],"class_list":["post-90020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-carbon","tag-multibillion-dollar","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90022,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90020\/revisions\/90022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}