Irish Mensa Lecture and Discussion: Carbon Offsetting - Does It Really Work?

Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many net-zero strategies, yet remain highly controversial. They seem an efficient solution for "unavoidable" emissions – but who decides what is unavoidable?

In a net zero world, can you compensate for your own emissions by paying someone else to reduce theirs? This lecture explores potential offsetting strategies we could take. It asks, even if we need one that is effective, would setting up an ineffective strategy be the best place to start?

Our Speaker: Professor Myles Allen took his first degree in Physics and Philosophy, followed by a doctorate in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, both at the University of Oxford. He has worked at Oxford for most of his career, with early stints at MIT and the UN Environment Programme in Kenya, and is currently Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative. He was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2010, and in 2022 a CBE for services to climate change attribution, prediction and net zero. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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