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Professor Thomas Hale, Oxford University, on How to Fix the Carbon Offset Market

A Sustainable Future

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The Right Mix of Offsets Relative to Omissions Reductions

I often hear a working, i call it a finger in the air, assumption that residual carbon offsets in hard to abate sectors should represent in roughly ten to 20 perent of total omissions. But again, i'd frankly struggle to point to or cite any specific source around that. It's rearly hard to be a entirely prescriptive at a general level and what the right balance should be. Probably the 80 to nine, 90 % level is d rule of thumb for what we should do.

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