This is ridiculous. Yes, a non-profit org is tax-free, but why the individual salaries? This is a total fallacy: re this quote: "Preventing deforestation is a much cheaper way of cutting carbon emissions ..." Preventing deforestation has NOTHING to do with cutting emissions; in an ideal situation, it MIGHT sequester, for the time being, a small amount of carbon. Meanwhile emissions continue apace. However, as REDD-Monitor frequently points out, "deforestation" has morphed into the vagaries of tree plantations and shifting baselines and the shifting of the same logging to nearby areas. Then the most air-head quote: "In the global battle against climate change, we are equipped with numerous tools, but none offer the immediacy and broad impact of the VCM." There is ZERO immediacy in planting trees, there is no demonstrable "impact" (see the Keeling Curve) of the VCM.
A previous version of this post stated that because Verra is a non-profit organisation, salaries were tax-free. That was a misunderstanding. Employees in non-profit organisations do pay tax. I've deleted that sentence and added a footnote explaining that I've deleted it.
This is ridiculous. Yes, a non-profit org is tax-free, but why the individual salaries? This is a total fallacy: re this quote: "Preventing deforestation is a much cheaper way of cutting carbon emissions ..." Preventing deforestation has NOTHING to do with cutting emissions; in an ideal situation, it MIGHT sequester, for the time being, a small amount of carbon. Meanwhile emissions continue apace. However, as REDD-Monitor frequently points out, "deforestation" has morphed into the vagaries of tree plantations and shifting baselines and the shifting of the same logging to nearby areas. Then the most air-head quote: "In the global battle against climate change, we are equipped with numerous tools, but none offer the immediacy and broad impact of the VCM." There is ZERO immediacy in planting trees, there is no demonstrable "impact" (see the Keeling Curve) of the VCM.
A previous version of this post stated that because Verra is a non-profit organisation, salaries were tax-free. That was a misunderstanding. Employees in non-profit organisations do pay tax. I've deleted that sentence and added a footnote explaining that I've deleted it.