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I want to fly to Hawaii, but I don’t want to wreck the planet. With carbon offsets, can I do both?

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I don’t think this should be put on consumers to figure out,” said Noah Deich , president of Carbon180 , a carbon removal, policy-focused nonprofit. But an overall greening of the airline industry is long, long ways off. As a CEO, you write a check and something happens somewhere and you get to claim that you’re net zero.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

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. “They’re focusing on making smart investments in things that have real-world implications both near- and far-term,” said Gabriel Scheer , director of innovation for the investment and accelerator nonprofit Elemental Excelerator. Microsoft is also making use of the tech in its portfolio.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She has written for publications including The Future magazine, Hotel Business Review , and Delta Airlines’ Sky magazine. She is a future thinker who specializes in the field of management and has launched more than 100 products, netting $18 billion in sales. Nilofer Merchant likes to be called “ The Jane Bond of Innovation ”.

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