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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
Communities in Zimbabwe received nothing from carbon credit sales in C-Quest’s cookstove projects
A new report by Swedwatch and Green Governance Africa exposes “missing benefit sharing and poor community engagement”.
 • Chris Lang
REDDisms: February 2026
An occasional series of the things people say about carbon trading, the climate crisis, and REDD.
 • Chris Lang
Indigenous Peoples threatened with violence, livestock theft, and evictions from Mukogodo Forest, Kenya
Statement and letter from the East Africa Indigenous Women-Led Assembly.
 • Chris Lang
KOKO Networks’ cookstove carbon credits in Kenya were “largely hot air”
“They would have taken everything that Kenya is entitled to.”
 • Chris Lang
Confusion and alarm over ASC Impact’s carbon plantations in Gambella, Ethiopia
“The trees make us very worried.”
 • Chris Lang
Six Malagasy civil society organisations have written to Verra to complain about Tozzi Green’s carbon plantation land grab in Madagascar
Local communities have been protesting against the company’s operations for more than a decade.
 • Chris Lang
The collapse of KOKO Networks. A cookstoves project in Kenya that relied on compliance carbon trading
When the Kenyan government refused to issue a letter of authorisation KOKO collapsed.
 • Chris Lang
Carbon trading under Article 6 threatens to make the climate crisis worse
UN standards inevitably fail to address the flaws in inherent in carbon trading.
 • Chris Lang

January 2026

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