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adidas samba og roject has reduced or avoided greenhouse gas emissions a solar farm that replaces a coal power plant, say or instead has removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stored it somewhere by planting lots of trees, for instance . The standards body issues carbon credits, the project owner sells them, and they can be traded in the financialised carbon economy until the point when a buyer retires them. The buyer that retires the credit is said to have caused the reduction, avoidance or removal of a defined quantity of greenhouse gases 鈥?in this sense, their emissions have been offset by the reductions of someone else.It sounds far-fetched, and it is. Grave uncertainties in the accounting process are exploited by project developers, overlooked by standards agenci Znij It a classic movie formula. Put two men w
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