CARB Eyes Science-Based Updates To Controversial Forest GHG Protocol

California air officials are weighing revisions to their controversial forest-project greenhouse gas offset credit protocol based on new science and technology, while continuing to rebut allegations by offset opponents that the standard rewards projects that don’t result in “additional” carbon reductions. “This program is not just a theoretical -- ‘this is how you should do offsets.’ It is a program that is set in statute, it is a program that is designed with multiple stakeholders, it has been developed in...