New analysis reveals major corporations in Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Fashion, Auto, Airline and Oil & Gas industries are utilizing millions of “likely junk” carbon offsets

New research by Corporate Accountability provides a deep dive into which globally-recognized brands have purchased the most “likely junk” carbon offset credits. An offset is an “allowance” that governments, institutions, and corporations—from fossil fuel majors and airlines to fast-food giants—purchase from environmental projects to supposedly count towards their respective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The analysis underscores the inherently problematic nature of increasing corporate and governmental investment in a fundamentally-flawed scheme that has failed to reduce carbon emissions while distracting from effective climate action and even likely causing harm. “These findings…

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Advocates: Stop Targeting Children with Ads in “New York Times for Kids”

A coalition of consumer and privacy advocates called on the New York Times to make its new Times for Kids section free of advertising. The advocates’ letter is a response to the November 19, 2017 supplement, in which 5 of the 16 pages were full-page ads directed at children for Google Home Mini.   In a letter they sent to the Times today, the groups document how the supplement targeted vulnerable kids with marketing for an internet-connected device which could endanger children’s privacy and welfare.  The groups say the cartoon ads…

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