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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Luke Barratt and Miranda Green

BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

a map shows portions of a forest that have been logged
Carbon ratings agency Renoster found that the Sealaska project in south-eastern Alaska ‘manipulated’ its boundaries in order to receive more credits. The darker green areas in the image show the remaining trees that had not been logged. Photograph: Renoster from Google Earth

This story is co-published with SourceMaterial and Floodlight

Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found.

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