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I'm a fan of the general concept of credit-based market systems and for carbon or carbon equivalents it is basically fungible by location. That's not true for
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
I'm a fan of the general concept of credit-based market systems and for carbon or carbon equivalents it is basically fungible by location.
That's not true for other pollutants though, which is one of the reasons that e.g EVs shifting emissions to powerplants is good because cars are used in dense urban environments where the pollution affects more people.
I've seen the work that big tech has published to justify the additionality of their clean energy purchases and offsets. They have the data to refute this if they can do so. I'd guess they can't due to their renewables and other offers being further away from population than these data centres.
- freejazz 2y ago> additionality Why do people keep adding "ality" to words? "Addition" works fine here: "I've seen the work that big tech has published to justify the addition of their clean energy purchases and offsets"
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoAdditionality means "does this purchase of clean/green energy increase the total amount on the grid or does it just take it from other users who are now associated with the emissions of the non-clean energy". Or more broadly "the extent to which something happens as a result of an intervention that would not have occurred in the absence of the intervention."
- freejazz 2y agoHow is that not contemplated in "additional"?