[s9e21] Carbon Offsets -

The episode begins by highlighting how major corporations—from airlines to oil giants—heavily promote their "carbon-neutral" status. They do this by purchasing , certificates representing the removal or prevention of one metric ton of CO2cap C cap O sub 2 elsewhere in the world to "cancel out" their own emissions. The Core Problem: Additionality

Oliver centers the story on the concept of —the requirement that an offset project must only happen because of the carbon credit funding. [S9E21] Carbon Offsets

Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world would have existed anyway.

The episode details several high-profile examples of carbon offset failures: [S9E21] Carbon Offsets

: Many projects, particularly large-scale renewable energy farms or forests that were never under threat, would have existed anyway.