Energy vs Climate vs Offsets

Energy vs Climate

On Season 4, Episode 6 of EvC, Sara, David and Ed tackle the thorny and always controversial topic of carbon offsets, live at Avatar Innovations at The Energy Transition Centre in downtown Calgary.

An offset in principle is paying someone else - a company, or a country - to reduce emissions that you yourself cannot, or simply will not reduce. What is the role of offsets in helping the world to avoid dangerous climate change? What's 'additionality' when it comes to offsets, and is it fundamental or merely an after thought? How are offset markets regulated to ensure integrity? And should you bother to click that "yes" button to offset your flight emissions?
EPISODE NOTES

@1:10 EvC Live held at the Energy Transition Center, at the Ampersand

@2:02 Infidelity Offsets video from Climate Ad Project

@4:15 Business Renewable Centre of Canada

@4:48 Guide to Purchasing Carbon Offsets with Pembina Institute

@5:48 CDM mechanism to reduce emissions by developed countries - Kyoto Protocol

@10:05 Additionality, permanence, leakage 101

@23:09 Example of voluntary offsets

@24:30 Two flavours of offsets: Alberta Emissions Offset Registry and the Emissions Performance Credit Registry

@32:41 Discussion on the quality of voluntary offsets
@37:43 Gaming the system with low quality voluntary offsets

@53:50 Low-cost American airline, JetBlue, moving away from carbon offsets

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