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Selling carbon credits

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Selling carbon credits
This 2008 cartoon plays on Air New Zealand’s scheme that offers customers the chance to voluntarily buy carbon credits to offset the emissions from their journey. Uptake rates were very low.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Eric Pawson, Economy and the environment – Corporate environmental responsibility, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/21671/selling-carbon-credits (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Eric Pawson, published 26 February 2010.