Is greenwash out of control?

In a podcast interview with Ethical Corporation, Greenpeace executive director Gerd Leipold takes aim at companies that offset their emissions then proclaim themselves carbon neutral.

In the interview, Leipold says he thinks carbon offsetting is “misleading” and that tree-planting schemes mean “the potential for fraud is huge”. As readers will know, a cabal of companies, large and small, is busy proclaiming itself “carbon neutral”. Governments are concerned by how easily these firms can buy offsets that magic-away their environmental impacts, but can do little about it.

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