Are We Too Obsessed With Carbon Accounting? (opens in new tab)

When Jane Flegal was working in market development for Frontier Climate, a $1 billion initiative to catalyze advances in carbon removal, she had what she called a “radicalizing experience.”Frontier went out to corporate sustainability teams, selling them on large carbon removal offtake agreements with vetted startups developing technologies to suck measurable amounts of carbon directly out of the air. These were more expensive than the carbon offsets companies could buy to support forest cons...