The Climate Innovation team’s Michelle Connolly and Rebecca Rogerson answer some of your most frequently asked questions on forest carbon offsets. What exactly is a carbon offset project? Michelle: Carbon offsets are a tool Indigenous communities can use to address climate change, support sovereignty, and protect the land. When they’re done well, offset projects bring benefits to the environment, the atmosphere, and to Indigenous communities that are driving the projects. Forests, grasslands, and wetlands capture and store carbon pollution created by the modern economy. Even forests that burn, or experience an insect outbreak, continue to store and sequester carbon. When Indigenous communities improve the carbon storing and sequestering capacity of their lands and waters, such as protecting forests from logging, ...
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