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News Headlines, “Today it has been announced by a government department, that carbon offsets are a theoretical idea and in practice useless”.
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<blockquote data-quote="sjt01" data-source="post: 7849773" data-attributes="member: 30726"><p>I think that offsetting can be dismissed as spurious, as each business and industry should seek to reduce its footprint, not divert it to another business and effectively hide it.</p><p></p><p>Carbon footprinting is notoriously difficult to do, as it depends entirely on where boundaries are set. By judicious definition of the calculation boundary, just about any figure can be obtained. It seems to me that the way to approach it can be modelled on VAT. Every business gets a figure for the carbon emissions from its inputs, then adds or subtracts its own contribution which applies to its outputs. If this is applied to imports in the same way as to local production, we can avoid exporting our emissions and pollution. It could even replace VAT, so the Carbon Added Tax would instantly show the consumer the impact of their purchase.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sjt01, post: 7849773, member: 30726"] I think that offsetting can be dismissed as spurious, as each business and industry should seek to reduce its footprint, not divert it to another business and effectively hide it. Carbon footprinting is notoriously difficult to do, as it depends entirely on where boundaries are set. By judicious definition of the calculation boundary, just about any figure can be obtained. It seems to me that the way to approach it can be modelled on VAT. Every business gets a figure for the carbon emissions from its inputs, then adds or subtracts its own contribution which applies to its outputs. If this is applied to imports in the same way as to local production, we can avoid exporting our emissions and pollution. It could even replace VAT, so the Carbon Added Tax would instantly show the consumer the impact of their purchase. [/QUOTE]
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