Lingxi Chenyang: We need to fix carbon offsets, not just continue to dismiss them as evil scams.
than neighboring nontribal forests. This is because tribal groups manage forests for human and forest health rather than any single goal., which helped the Yurok Tribe of Northern California sell millions of dollars of carbon offsets. They implemented traditional practices like prescribed burns, which helps food and medicinal plants grow and makes forests more resilient to wildfires. The Yurok then used the carbon revenue to buy back almost 60,000 acres of ancestral land.offers another example.
Net-zero is a better response to the climate crisis than denial and inaction. We also need to embrace the idea that offsets can be used not only for decarbonization but for making our communities climate resilient. We need to fix offsets, not just continue to dismiss them as evil scams.is an associate professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, where her research focuses on legal issues involving climate change, the environment and property.
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