Taylor Swift’s Carbon Credits Show How Hazy the Offset Market Is

Taylor Swift will be back on stage next month for the European leg of her wildly successful Eras tour, racking up miles as her private jet carries her from Paris to Stockholm to Lisbon.

To counter her emissions, the recently minted billionaire is doing the same thing as longtime ultra-rich jetsetters like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates: buying carbon offsets.

Swift, according to her publicist Tree Paine, purchased more than double the credits needed to offset all her travel before her Eras tour kicked off in March 2023. In theory, that means the pop star’s private-jet use is more than ...