Compensations de transition : pas de solution miracle pour en finir avec le charbon

Reclaim Finance warns that proposed carbon offset protocols for replacing coal plants with renewables risk overestimating emission reductions and allowing polluters to avoid their own decarbonization. The author asserts that large-scale coal phase-outs require governments and financial institutions to accept investment losses and provide significant support for sustainable energy deployment.

• Proposed protocols for carbon offsets derived from closing coal plants and replacing them with renewables are likely to overestimate emission reductions, mirroring a broader trend in voluntary carbon market methodologies.
• Carbon offsets for early coal plant closures create a zero-sum outcome because they allow other polluters to purchase these offsets instead of reducing their own emissions, thereby neutralizing the climate benefit of the closures.
• Achieving large-scale coal plant closures requires financial institutions and governments to accept that not all investments in coal plants can be recovered, alongside extensive support for rapid sustainable energy deployment.

APA

Manickawasagar, A. (2025). Compensations de transition : pas de solution miracle pour en finir avec le charbon. Reclaim Finance. https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2025/03/10/compensations-de-transition-pas-de-solution-miracle-pour-en-finir-avec-le-charbon/

Chicago

Manickawasagar, Aatiraï. Compensations de transition : pas de solution miracle pour en finir avec le charbon. Reclaim Finance, 2025. https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2025/03/10/compensations-de-transition-pas-de-solution-miracle-pour-en-finir-avec-le-charbon/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{manickawasagar2025compensations, author = {Manickawasagar, Aatiraï}, title = {{Compensations de transition : pas de solution miracle pour en finir avec le charbon}}, publisher = {Reclaim Finance}, year = {2025}, month = mar, url = {https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2025/03/10/compensations-de-transition-pas-de-solution-miracle-pour-en-finir-avec-le-charbon/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }