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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

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In background briefings, officials said the announcement makes Canada the first of the world’s wealthiest countries to publish a detailed implementation plan for a pledge that was first announced at the G20 leaders’ summit in Pittsburgh in 2009. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets?

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Is the burgeoning 'plastic credits' market a new wave of greenwashing?

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They point to Verra’s carbon credit program which came under scrutiny this year for lack of verifiability and for serving as an excuse for companies not to reduce their carbon footprint. ACC’s Dewing counters that “people say this is greenwashing. But] this is not greenwashing at all.