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Richard Delevan
Oct 22, 2023
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Welcome back to Wicked Problems. The climate tech newsletter that some people are saying is like a climate-proof apple (FT) - juicy, a bit tart, and not quite reliably produced yet. We’ve had some things in the works that have kept us a bit busy but we’re back in the fields bringing in the fruit.

Here are some climate tech stories we came across that we thought worth sharing.

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1. Everybody Hates Offsets

Bumper week if you were looking for sticks to beat up carbon markets. Heidi Blake’s epic 11,000+ word NEW YORKER investigative piece of how bad the grift in carbon offsets got is harrowing reading. Focusing on a massive forest project in Zimbabwe by South Pole, the world’s largest offsetting firm, the deeply reported (and legalled) piece put you in the room where some really really bad decisions got made:

The Kariba project, spanning an area ten times the size of New York City, was among the world’s first “…

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