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CommunicationPublished on 14 August 2023

Offsets for mitigating climate change: opportunity or myth?

The Swiss Confederation and many Swiss companies have plans to offset their greenhouse gas emissions in partner countries. Development projects can help to achieve this, but following disclosures that emissions certificates sometimes inflate the claimed reductions, there has been growing scepticism about this mechanism.

Agreement under fire: Switzerland planned to provide assistance to Georgia and its capital Tiflis to improve the energy efficiency of public buildings – and to claim the carbon credits.

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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Eichenweg 5
3003 Bern