Richard Brooks
March 04 2022
IMO, your carbon offsets go up in smoke.
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If you are buying carbon off-sets from a forest and it burns, what is the legal impact on your company of that fire?
- Mar 4, 2022 2:13 pm GMT
Anyone know the answer, Carbon offsets...
If you are buying carbon off-sets from a forest and it burns, what is the legal impact on your company of that fire?
Is it defined?
Is it consistent globally?
Does it impact prior years?
-no agenda here, purely looking for answers after 3 or 4 hours of reading on the internet, without finding any firm answers only many conflicting documents.
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March 04 2022
That is a very good question. I would not know how to answer that without the consultation of a group of lawyers. The entire issue surrounding carbon offsets and their handling is very murky.
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