Here’s an example of how net zero offsetting shouldn’t work: following up an announcement about onshore wind farm liberalisation with one approving the UK’s first new coal mine for 30 years.
Coal has reached something approaching climate pariah status. Metallurgical (or coking) coal of the type to be mined at Whitehaven may not be as untouchable as the thermal kind but, as commodities analyst Colin Hamilton of BMO put it earlier this year, “anything which contributes to carbon entering the atmosphere faces inherent challenges”.
It seems the UK government takes a different view. But the arguments do not add up.
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