You make an excellent point. I was merely pointing out it’s not a silver bullet.

And I believe the goals that Air NZ was targeting were not “net” but actual emission targets. So they cannot simply offset their way out of them.

Honestly, having them declare failure early is a better outcome than getting to the zero hour and saying “we can’t do it” this means they are actually tracking their progress and taking the promises seriously.

Yeah, Unfortunately carbon credits have been gamed by ineffectual eco projects so, they pretty much do nothing but allow a company a way to pretend they aren’t the problem.

This is possibly a mismanagement problem.
“You must deliver this project in this timeframe, no matter what additional requests come through”

So workers see these requests as an impediment to their progress.
This doesn’t excuse the staffers behavior, but I imagine they were under some sort of pressure.