NET ZERO: Carbon Offsetting

It’s like buying credit in the world’s carbon bank: carbon offsetting is paying towards schemes that reduce greenhouse gases. Is it helpful - or a convenient way of greenwashing our pollution?

Anja Kollmuss
Emissions Trading Policy Analyst

Peter Miller
Climate & Clean Energy Program Director

Mary Gagen
Professor of Geography at Swansea University

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it’s about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT WORLD.

[lukebieniek]

Great show. Thank you for addressing these issues in depth and with integrity. Couldn’t we create a heckuva Lotta jobs hiring people to go around holding companies people and everyone’s feet to the fire so to speak. Seems to me, Enforcing the honesty factor is a monumental task in itself, never mind the actual work. The conscience of humankind will need to be held accountable with a whole new immense box of tools and a work force to proficiently put them to use.Shame, shame shame.!!!

[wargankri]

Make sure land tenure/ ownership is clear.. planting trees are easy, but who will maintain and own the trees.. Plant needle leave trees, such as pine trees, grow fast or sequester carbon faster

[rodbioco]

Plant giant bamboo in tropics and subtropics, sequesters 3x faster than trees… bamboo as grass regenerates…

[abelgarcia]

I have been looking at how efficient car engines since the 1970S. My dad was an auto mechanic and he could get car mileage from his 1955 Chevy V-8 that most fuel stingy cars of today can't get close to. Car engine efficiency, to me has decreased slightly since 1970s but fuel injection and turbocharging has reversed that.

[alancharlton]

I am at 1m30s & already see a problem with the graphics, the omission of CO in relation to vehicle emissions, treating them as being CO2, the gas I exhale.

[finianlacy]

Or what???? What will happen exactly if not met...did the UN have a chat with God ??