Business Green: The practice of carbon offsetting is “profoundly unjust” and “fundamentally flawed”, according to a critical new report from Friends of the Earth. A Dangerous Distraction, which calls on the UK government to ditch calls for an expansion of UN-backed offsetting schemes, argues there is now ample evidence to show that offsetting is “ineffective and damaging”. The report has been released to coincide with international talks in Bonn this week, where reforms designed to expand the …