Carbon Offsets
topic on 3 shows · 10 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Capital Allocators 
Catalyst
10 statements about Carbon Offsets, every show
Thomas: SEC rules mandate disclosing carbon offsets used for stated climate goals
“Well, there, I mean, there are disclosure requirements for racks and offsets within the SEC disclosure. So the final rule does include disclosing that if it's a part of how you're planning to obtain, or you have goals and targets, how you're going to get there…”
Orbuch: Buyers cannot purchase real carbon removal for $10 per ton
“Turns out you can't spend 10 dollars a ton and do anything real.”
Rice Excludes Fund Managers Who Won't Commit to Carbon Neutrality
“We don't invest in a single fund that hasn't committed to be using carbon offsets and become carbon neutral.”
Hawkins: Mapping fungal diversity provides a crucial tool for carbon offsets
“I think there's a lot of exciting potential there because on the cards are various sorts of maps that we can use in conservation planning. So, you know, when you're planning a conservation area, you will usually look at where you've got high biodiversity. You …”
Chay: Treating uncalibrated models like sampled soil creates a race to the bottom
“If you're in a market and everything looks like a ton, so I could take any of these approaches and get tons that I can sell, and they look the same in the market you really result in a race to the bottom. It's way easier to not sample anything and get some ton…”
Bullard: Carbon markets need thousands of offset types but only 2-5 accounting methods
“You know, like, we will not be in a successful place if we have, on a good way, 500 different ways to do a high-quality offset, And 50 different ways to measure and account for it. That will not be a success. Success would be, like, thousands of ways to do an …”
Ransohoff: Forcing early carbon removal to compete with $10 offsets undermines industry
“And I worry that there's a lot of pull to treat it like that right now. And there's a lot of pull to sort of to, you know, list everything on a carbon market and have it compete with 10 dollar per ton offsets. And that's, I don't think that's going to set it u…”
Saez-Gil: Traditional carbon offset markets rely on multiple intermediary layers
“Today companies that want to purchase carbon offsets, they generally have to go to brokers. The brokers get their credits from, you know, a trader, the trader maybe from a retailer, the retailer from a, you know, a lot of middlemen along the way.”
Saez-Gil: New airline regulations demand 160M tons of carbon offsets annually
“All the airlines starting in twenty-twenty-one will have to offset their emissions. This is by regulations, right? Mm-hmm. It's called the Corsia Framework. Yeah. We are talking about a 160 million tons per year that are gonna be demanded by the market.”