Quite. But lack of effective scale aside, seedlings are not mighty, carbon-guzzling oaks. They take decades to mature. This is time we don’t have.
Yet as public pressure intensifies around the climate crisis, airlines are keenly paying increased lip service to “greening” the sector.
And offsets – appeasing both passengers and regulators, yet costing airlines very little – have become a key buzzword. Except they don’t work.
A 2017 study from the European Commission found 85% of offset projects under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism – some of the most highly regarded offset schemes in the world – failed to reduce emissions.
