[igor47]

Carbon credits are an important way to pay for things there's no other way to pay for. I work with Recoolit to prevent refrigerant emissions (more at https://www.recoolit.com/our-work) and there's literally no other way to pay for our work, which can prevent gigatons of CO2e

[bb88]

Personally, I think what you guys are doing is awesome.

The problem I have with carbon credits is that it's just as easy for you to take the refrigerant and just release it into the atmosphere. Or you could just take the carbon credits and no do anything. Or you make some honest effort for half the credits, but then not do anything for half of the other credits you sell.

Who audits you? Who regulates your carbon credits?

Or carbon credits can more like a rent rather than a more permanent solution: "We'll pay the farmers to not burn these acres of the amazon rain forest for another year." What happens when the farmers want 10x more money next year? Are you going to pay them?

[kokanee]

My take on this specific example is that when a device is found to be leaking refrigerant, the owner, installer, and manufacturer should all be fined.