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Legal victory for the Kichwa community against exclusionary conservation and the Cordillera Azul REDD project in Peru
The Court ordered that the Kichwa should receive titling of ancestral territory, the right to free, prior and informed consent, and benefits from the…
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ORF documentary investigates the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia: “We are no longer allowed to use the forest. We are no longer allowed…
The REDD project prevents villagers from growing crops on their land.
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Carbon Market Watch files a complaint about Verra’s “review” of the Southern Cardamom REDD project in Cambodia
The complaint has been submitted to the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Market.
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I was accused of perpetuating “gendered and potentially racialised oppression”
I asked four people for their thoughts. Three women, one man. Three from the Global South, one from the North. None agreed with the accusations.
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Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approves three REDD methodologies. Risk of millions of credits that are “non-additional…
The Oeko-Institute has withdrawn from the ICVCM. Two members of the Expert Panel have resigned.
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ORF documentary investigates Rimba Raya REDD project in Indonesia: “All empty promises”
Villagers have lost their livelihoods and parts of the forest are burning.
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84% of carbon credits are junk
New peer-reviewed study finds that, “less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects constitute real emission reductions”.
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part II: Jeff Bezos’ megayacht
Complete with illegal teak decks imported from Myanmar.
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Using carbon credits to close coal plants will not deliver climate benefits
“Promotion of carbon credits for financing coal phaseouts is misguided and unfortunate.”
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November 2024

“Continuing to stand behind the fallacy that carbon offsetting approaches will get us out of the climate crisis is now untenable”
Scientists advise the University of Exeter to ditch carbon offsets.
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REDD myth no. 6: “Carbon markets are climate finance”
The reality is that carbon markets are diverting money away from the Global South.
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Illegal logging associated with hydropower dam construction in Southern Cardamom REDD project, Cambodia
New documentary by France24 looks at illegal logging in three REDD projects in Cambodia.
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