Just for reference:
You can invest into gas power plant being built in India to offset your Carbon footprint e.g. via UN FCCC, fully gold certified and all (can’t find the exact one anymore, maybe sold out).
If it reduces CO2 output (and some other nasty impacts) effectively, IMO it should be fair game in the intermediate time frame. More context here: Environmental Impacts of Natural Gas | Union of Concerned Scientists
What freaks me out in e.g. German energy policy is that they did not shift heavily into (their newly built!) gas capacity after starting to phase out nukes. They even built almost no new wind power! There are many things where you can give the benefit of doubt, or careful incrementalism - but those really aren’t.
I’d love to have the option of living (almost) directly under a wind power plant if - why are there no “market forces” allowed to counter that sort of NIMBYsm?
If the EIB thing can catalyze some of the processes around that then they get my hooray.
Edit: here are some: CDM: CDM-Home