“碳抵消”作为减少环境影响的合法途径的声誉上个月遭受了进一步的打击，当时一条线上环保旅行公司取消了客户抵消其碳排放的选择。Responsibletravel.com was one of the first travel promoters to offer its customers the chance to pay for environmental projects to offset the emissions caused by their trips, but now it says offsetting is a distraction from the need to reduce emissions as ‘it allows people to behave in the same way or worse’. A spokeswoman for the company said, ‘Too often offsets are used by the tourism industry to justify growth plans on the basis that money will be donated to projects in developing countries – global reduction targets will not be met this way.’