Remove XKCD
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Why the Carney Taskforce on carbon offsetting misses the mark

Business Green

The webcomic xkcd pokes fun at this proliferation risk : where once we had X quality standards, we now have X+1. Meeting the CCPs must not significantly add to this burden, and would ideally reduce it. Widely adopted - The danger with voluntary standards is that someone can always make another one, diluting the adoption of the others.

Carbon 63
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Want people to care about climate change? Skip the jargon.

Grist

A good example is “ Up Goer Five ,” a diagram by Randall Monroe , the cartoonist behind the website xkcd. The solution is to put jargon and buzzwords into simple language that anyone can understand. It takes some effort, of course. It explains how a rocket works using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language.