A carbon credit allows the holder to emit a limited amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. Several states and ...

It's a common refrain: A billionaire loudly promotes potential solutions for climate change while jetting around the world, leaving a sizable carbon footprint. This week, it happened twice. First, ...

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can't meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

E-commerce giant Amazon (AMZN) is buying carbon offset credits that will be applied to the rainforest in South America’s Amazon jungle. According to a report on CNBC, Amazon is purchasing the carbon ...

After more than three decades on Wall Street — first at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and then at Bank of America Corp. — Tom Montag thought he’d seen most forms of financial wizardry. Then Hank Paulson ...

Carbon offsets have been heavily criticized as greenwashing, but they have a hidden benefit: getting crucial climate funds to developing nations. By Manuela Andreoni The White House announced ...

Some carbon offsets that received a stamp of approval from a key industry body could be environmentally worthless, according to a new study from a watchdog group. The finding raises questions about ...

So you're booking your flight, and just when you're about to check out, the airline asks if you'd like to pay a little something to offset your share of the flight's pollution. Or, maybe you're an ...

Auditors are failing in their role as third-party guarantors of the quality of carbon offsets, according to new academic research. In a paper published Thursday in Science, an international ...