Carbon schemes 'not delivering'
Updated on 16 July 2007
Schemes to offset carbon emissions may not be delivering what they promise, Channel 4 News has found.
Carbon offsetting has been touted as one of the ways to cancel out our climate change sins.
You pay someone else, somewhere in the world, to reduce carbon emissions on your behalf.
But an investigation by Channel 4 News science correspondent Tom Clarke has shown that offsetting schemes may not be delivering what they promise.
Those schemes include one by BP to use pig muck to offset customers' driving emissions.
The systems has been touted as one of the ways to cancel out our climate change sins.
You pay someone else, somewhere in the world, to reduce carbon emissions on your behalf.
