{"id":53156,"date":"2022-06-08T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=53156"},"modified":"2022-06-08T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:26:00","slug":"greenpeaces-reaction-to-the-federal-governments-announcement-of-a-greenhouse-gas-offset-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/53156\/greenpeaces-reaction-to-the-federal-governments-announcement-of-a-greenhouse-gas-offset-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace\u2019s reaction to the federal government\u2019s announcement of a greenhouse gas offset system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TORONTO &#8211;<\/strong> In reaction to the federal government\u2019s announcement of a greenhouse gas offset system, Greenpeace Canada Head of Nature and Food Campaign, Shane Moffatt, said:<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s decision to double down on carbon offsets is a major step backwards for Canada\u2019s climate ambitions. The science is clear: to prevent this global crisis from getting worse, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions immediately while at the same time protecting and restoring natural ecosystems. This means saying NO to offsets and YES to ending fossil fuels. Offsetting doesn\u2019t stop carbon from entering the atmosphere and warming our world, it just keeps it off the books of big polluters responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please see our submission to the federal government\u2019s <em>Strategic Assessment of Climate Change<\/em> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2021\/10\/0d100314-greenpeace-canada-submission-to-the-strategic-assessment-of-climate-change-%E2%80%93-draft-technical-guide-october-25th-2021.docx-1.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For media requests, please contact:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Dina Ni, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>(416) 820-2148, <a href=\"mailto:dina.ni@greenpeace.or\">dina.ni@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s decision to double down on carbon offsets is a major step backwards for Canada\u2019s climate ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":53157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-53156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-forests","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53159,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53156\/revisions\/53159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53156"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=53156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}