{"id":223229,"date":"2025-10-10T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/millions-of-carbon-credits-are-generated-by-overestimating-forest-preservation-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:09:36","slug":"millions-of-carbon-credits-are-generated-by-overestimating-forest-preservation-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/millions-of-carbon-credits-are-generated-by-overestimating-forest-preservation-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest preservation, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/millions-of-carbon-credits-are-generated-by-overestimating-forest-preservation-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The majority of carbon offset schemes are significantly overestimating the levels of deforestation they are preventing, according to a study published in Science.<\/p>\n<p>This means that many of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+credits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon credits<\/a>\u201d bought by companies to balance out emissions are not tied to real-world <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/forest\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">forest<\/a> preservation as claimed.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists and economists led by the University of Cambridge and VU Amsterdam found that millions of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon<\/a> credits are based on crude calculations that inflate the conservation successes of voluntary REDD+ projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of carbon offset schemes are significantly overestimating the levels of deforestation they are preventing, according to a study published in Science. This means that many of the \u201ccarbon credits\u201d bought by companies to balance out emissions are not tied to real-world forest preservation as claimed. An international team of scientists and economists led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}