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Outgrowing offsetting: “Offsetting is the wrong way to think about climate action altogether — pastoralism exposes why”
New policy brief from the IYRP Global Alliance Working Group on Pastoralism and Carbon Markets.
 • Chris Lang
Verra suspended the Pacajai REDD project in September 2023. Companies have retired more than 2 million carbon credits from the project since…
Including Mastercard, BlackRock, and Philip Morris.
 • Chris Lang
“The dynamics of social-ecological systems pose a fundamental challenge to attributing changes in carbon stocks to actions taken by carbon…
“The challenge is not simply poor measurement, weak data, or the absence of improved methodologies.”
 • Chris Lang
How the UK government suppressed, then ignored, its own report on how ecosystem collapse threatens national security
Instead of increasing support to protect ecosystems, the UK government is cutting climate finance.
 • Chris Lang
Article 6 carbon credits would allow the EU to emit 50% more greenhouse gas emissions in 2040
According to a policy brief by the NewClimate Institute.
 • Chris Lang
“Entire communities now live in fear and despair.” How the Tanzanian government profits from tourism while cracking down on Indigenous…
The World Bank’s failure to address breaches of its policies is “beyond shameful”.
 • Chris Lang

February 2026

The Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary REDD project in Cambodia is threatened by mining operations and a hydropower dam
Excellent reporting from Mongabay exposes the threats to wildlife, ecosystems, and communities.
 • Chris Lang
Malawi has signed a 40-year contract with Portuguese engineering firm Mota-Engil to generate carbon credits from 550,000 hectares of the…
Trafigura will market the carbon credits.
 • Chris Lang
New research shows that social-ecological complexity creates “high levels of uncertainty” and makes it “very difficult” to attribute changes…
Social-ecological complexity “makes any carbon additionality estimation fragile”.
 • Chris Lang
The carbon land grab: A debate between GRAIN and the Land Matrix
We need better land governance, better standards, and more transparency says the Land Matrix. We need to “put an end to offsetting as a false solution…
 • Chris Lang
Carbon colonialism: The Makira REDD project in Madagascar
“The forest remained. The cost was absorbed within the community.”
 • Chris Lang
How the UNHCR is using refugees in Uganda and Rwanda to generate carbon credits
“One of the most cynical instances of a corporate greenwashing agenda that has done little to address climate change.”
 • Chris Lang
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