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Greenwash! Asia Pulp and Paper’s new “sustainability” policy
APP’s new policy is “essentially a rerun of promises it made a decade ago but has largely failed to deliver on,” says Sergio Baffoni of Environmental…
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Chris Lang
Forest cleared for Irrigation Dam 2 construction overlaps proposed Samkos REDD project in Cambodia
A series of dams is under construction or already built inside Wildlife Alliance’s Samkos and Southern Cardamom REDD projects.
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“The potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero”
A new paper in Nature Geoscience challenges whether ecosystem restoration can really help address the climate crisis.
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Terra Global Capital and Anew Climate: How a US$640 million carbon deal fell apart
This is a story about a US$640 million carbon deal gone wrong.
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: Featuring Steve Ballmer, Aspiration Partners, the LA Clippers, and Kawhi Leonard’s “no show…
The podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” obtained 3,487 pages of internal corporate documents from Aspiration.
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The EU is proposing to buy hundreds of millions of carbon credits by 2040. With no analysis of either the economic or the climatic impacts
“The European Commission chose to cook the books instead of protecting the climate.”
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Apple buys carbon credits from eucalyptus monocultures in Paraguay. Nearby communities and a school are exposed to dangerous agrochemicals
New investigation by Climate Tracker and Consensus focuses on the agrochemicals used in the monoculture plantations.
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August 2025

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is based on high risk, not easy profits
Two economists explain what’s wrong with the TFFF investment strategy.
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Natural capital accounting: “These narratives have entrenched the fallacy that markets and market-based mechanisms can or will solve these…
Lisa Sachs, Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
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A proposal for funding nature-based climate solutions without carbon markets
A recent paper highlights some of the problems with carbon offset projects and suggests an alternative funding mechanism.
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German court rules that Apple Watch is not “carbon neutral”
Another legal victory for Deutsche Umwelthilfe against corporate greenwash.
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Joe Sanberg, co-founder of Aspiration Partners, to plead guilty to US$248 million scheme to defraud investors
Sanberg “admitted to being nothing more than a self-serving fraudster”.
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