> The vast majority of projects aim to avoid additional greenhouse gas emissions, for instance by replacing an existing or proposed coal-fired power plant with

> The vast majority of projects aim to avoid additional greenhouse gas emissions, for instance by replacing an existing or proposed coal-fired power plant with wind power. Strictly speaking, such avoidance projects don't offset actual emissions. We should instead focus more on projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere. But this is much more expensive: the Swiss company Climeworks charges between 600 to 1,000 dollars to remove a ton of CO2 from the atmosphere. In contrast, the average avoidance project based on installations of renewable energies costs just 2 dollars per ton of CO2. So we've reached the point where rolling out renewable energy to replace coal is seen as "cheating" because it's too easy and cheap?