CBC: What on Earth: Are carbon offsets a dangerous distraction?
On this podcast episode of CBC: What on Earth, Joseph Pallant is featured as the Director for Climate Innovation for Ecotrust Canada, and is tapped as a trusted expert on carbon offsets. Although there is much debate surrounding carbon offsets, it has recently been effective as a tool for Indigenous communities to participate in various resource projects and shows tremendous promise as a tool to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Listen to the full episode here.
“When people will say, ‘well they should have just protected the forests in the Great Bear rainforests’, I absolutely agree, but if you look at the current reality around protection in other unprotected old growth areas in British Columbia, we see that progress has not been fast enough and will still be very incomplete even if everything currently contemplated comes to pass”
Kitimat, BC by Ben den Engelsen