Jim Hourdequin is one of the planet’s biggest sellers of carbon offsets—the widely used instruments that are supposed to act as a balm for the rapidly overheating climate. His company earned $US53 million ($72 million) from these environmental transactions over the past two years.
But now the 47-year-old timber executive is calling out the entire system, including some of his own projects, as broken and shortchanging the climate.
