Exposed: The Truth Behind Popular Carbon Offsetting Schemes

By Martin Hickman, Independent UK
Posted on July 31, 2007, Printed on July 31, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/57976/

A television documentary has uncovered flaws in a series of carbon offsetting schemes intended to make good the global warming gases emitted by flights and other polluting activities.

An episode of the British show Dispatches aired "The Great Green Smoke Screen," which revealed how academics and environmentalists are questioning the ethics and impact of offsetting -- and suggesting that offsetting schemes have not been effective as claimed.