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 So this article will deal with the topic of whether carbon credits are greenwashing or a valid tool in the fight against climate change. So carbon credits are a tool that allows, basically allows projects in places, projects that do something to capture or offset carbon, which can be done in a variety of ways, to fund their activities by issuing carbon credits, with one carbon credit equaling one tonne of offset emissions. Those carbon credits can then be sold to other companies who can purchase enough tonnes of carbon removal to offset whatever their business activities result in each year. So a very simple way, it's a way of getting capital to go from the company that's polluting to somebody that, somebody else that is, that is neutralising the effects of that pollution. So the problem here is that people's first responses often that carbon credits in principle are greenwashing because the company who's doing the polluting, they're kind of brushing their bad behaviour under the rug. That they're emitting carbon and then paying off somebody else as a way of paying a kind of tribute to kind of absolve themselves of the sin of emitting carbon. The question to ask there is, what's the alternative? Like if a company is a manufacturing company, it is nearly impossible to run an entirely carbon neutral supply chain and operate the business without emitting carbon. It's just how it works. Until the world has a source of abundant renewable energy, which is absolutely the direction that the world should be and is going in, you need to emit, whether it's trucks transporting your materials, whether it's the machines that produce whatever you produce, heating offices, building buildings, you know, that there's no way for human activity to happen without causing pollution. And it's a kind of perfectionist pipe dream to think that companies can fully reduce their emissions entirely on their own. Some certainly can and every company should try to reduce their emissions as much as possible. But the idea that anyone who can't reduce 100% of their emissions themselves is somehow not doing enough just doesn't work in practice. So that's the advantage of carbon credits, is that carbon credits, when done well by responsible, effective projects that deliver on the promise of what their activities do, does literally remove carbon from the atmosphere. So and just like the rule with any organisation, organisations need capital to run. You can't just do things based on, you know, volunteered efforts or charitable donations. You know, there must be there must be money that's in the system that's getting activity to happen. I think all those things are indisputable. And the beauty of carbon credits is that a company, company A, by buying carbon credits, is not just, it's not just, you know, paying, paying a, paying a, paying their dues to kind of wipe, wipe the moral slate clean for that year. It's that that money goes into financing more projects. So the more carbon credits are adopted, the more companies use them because of pressure from their customers to go net zero. And the more that the average person and the customers of companies uses or believes that carbon credits are a effective tool and don't think that they're greenwashing, the more money is going towards causes, towards projects which are which are helping to bend the curve on climate change. So it's, it's, it's not if from a, from a kind of perfectionist moral perspective, you know, it would be better if everyone, if everyone just tried to stop doing anything that caused greenhouse gases to be emitted. But in the, in the, in the reality of the world today, that's not possible. The technology isn't there yet for everyone to do that. And on the topic of technology, you know, there are, there are carbon credits, which are based on carbon capture technologies and, and, and other kind of engineering based solutions to, to capturing carbon. So those are currently expensive because the technology is expensive. So a carbon credit based on a, based on a technology project is likely to be in the, in the, in the hundreds of dollars of, of, of cost per credit versus, you know, kind of single or low double digits for, for a solution that's based on preventing deforestation or some, some other, you know, natural, natural way of, nature based way of capturing carbon. But again, buying credits in technology projects is, is, is your financing the future of, of this technology, you're financing this technology to come online faster and to scale faster, which is ultimately the, the, the, the, the solution that the world needs. So the idea that one of the key things that needs to change in carbon, in, in, in, in the, the public's understanding of, of, of, of, of, of carbon credits is that carbon credits are, are not greenwashing by, by paying a, by, by, by one company that, that's polluting, buying carbon credits, paying another company to offset, offset those that, that, that carbon emitted. That is the system working exactly as it should. And it is companies from, from pressure from their customers spending out of their bottom line to, to offset carbon that they emit. So carbon credits are an excellent mechanism for that. And the next time someone, someone says carbon credits, oh, aren't those just greenwashing? The answer should be absolutely not. Carbon credits are, are helping to capture carbon and supporting, you know, a whole range of, of, of projects around the world from protecting forest to helping technology that captures carbon come online faster.