What is AVID+?
A working definition from MIT Sloan
AVID+ (acronym)
A framework that helps companies and consumers ensure that any carbon offsets they buy actually lead to lower carbon emissions.
To avoid the worst harm from climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions must fall by nearly half by 2030 and then drop to net zero by midcentury, according to United Nations climate scientists.
To reach their emissions-reductions goals, individuals, organizations, and nations are turning to carbon offsets, which are credits they buy to “cancel out” their own CO2 emissions by funding CO2 reduction projects elsewhere. However, many of the offsets being sold are based on dubious assumptions and do not actually reduce emissions, according to MIT Sloan professor John Sterman, faculty director of the MIT Climate Pathways Project.
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