2024.01.23 外刊双语精读 转绿：喜爱有罪者(3).docx

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Goinggreen:Lovethe?sinner

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Asmarketpricescrash,arecarbonoffsetsnowbeyond?redemption?

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【1】“ASSOONASacoininthe?coffer?rings,thesoulfrom?purgatory?springs,”rananearly?advertising?jingle?attributed?toJohannTetzel,a?16th-century?indulgence?salesman.?funding?thechurchoffered?believers?an?alternative?topayingforsinsinthe?afterlife.Thecarbon-credit?market?promises?somethingsimilar.Insteadofreducingyourcarbonfootprint,whynotsimplypaysomeoneelsetodoitforyou?

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【2】Itisaniceidea.Yetthe?voluntary?carbonmarket—asopposedto?compliance?markets,suchastheEU’s?emissions-trading?scheme—isin?turmoil.Latter-dayMartinLuthers,whose?objections?toTetzelledtotheReformation,havepointedoutthatoffsetsstruggletoprovetheymakeadifferenceto?emissions:?renewable?projectsareoften?viable?ontheirown,thusproviding?funding?doesnotlower?emissions.

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【3】Scandalshavealso?sapped?investor?appetite.AreportbytheGuardian,aBritishnewspaper,?alleged?thatmanyleading“nature-based”offsets,whichusuallyattempttorestoreforests,arejunk.Activistsarguethatmiddlemenhogthe?proceeds?and?indigenous?peoplefailtobenefit.Pricesfornature-basedoffsets?plunged?from$15?atonneaftertheCOPclimate?summit?inGlasgowtwoyearsagotoa?disastrous?$0.10?atonneaftertherecentmeetinginDubai,accordingtoXpansiv,anexchange.

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【4】Reformerswereatthe?summit?inforce,with?proposals?forhowtofixthemarket.Theseincludeplansto?verify,?tally?and?register?offsets.Six?outfits,includingthe?voluntary?CarbonMarkets?integrity?Initiative,whichprovidesadviceonhowtousecredits,andthe?integrity?Councilforthe?voluntary?CarbonMarket,whichaimstosetoffsetrules,?launched?whattheycalledan“end-to-end?integrity?framework”.

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【5】Thehopeisthatsuch?reassurance?might?tempt?back?corporate?buyers.McKinsey,aconsultancy,has?estimated?thatthemarketvalueof?volunt