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I'm suspicious that this is missing a lot of data, and if it's only a portion of the market and biased in which data is included, that would make it less useful

I'm suspicious that this is missing a lot of data, and if it's only a portion of the market and biased in which data is included, that would make it less useful. Google is one of the leaders in terms of corporations buying offsets, and my understanding is that they have a high bar in terms of quality/effectiveness. They offset all carbon emissions and have back-dated that to the beginning of the company. And yet they're nowhere to be seen on this. Am I missing something about what this data is supposed to show?

exp1orer 3y ago
I agree that this is likely missing data systematically. However note the difference between carbon offsets vs carbon removals. I don't know what kinds of offsets Google bought but given that they started buying them >15 years ago, they were probably not removals.
- danpalmer 3y ago
  That's true, but my understanding is that removals are a subset of offsets, and considered higher quality offsets. Given that Google seems very committed to doing this at scale and in an evidence based, audited, method, I'd be very surprised if nothing of theirs comes up in this. Disclaimer btw, I do work for Google but nothing to do with this. The company policy on this however is a strong factor in me choosing to work here.