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Why the Science Based Targets initiative should not allow carbon offsets
Statement signed by 29 scientists opposing carbon offsets.
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Chris Lang
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Plant-for-the-Planet promises reforestation. Meanwhile Frithjof Finkbeiner is clearing forest for luxury housing
And trying to sell an “extremely lucrative” beach villa to Plant-for-the-Planet Mexico.
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“We are stuck like chickens in a cage.” How an Indigenous Bunong woman describes living in the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia
The project has serious impacts on the livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples, while failing to stop deforestation.
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Toco: A cryptocurrency backed by carbon offsets. What could possibly go wrong?
Paying for stuff using a cryptocurrency based on carbon offsets will not address the climate crisis.
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The destruction of USAID
It's part of Musk’s coup.
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Chris Lang
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The crypto carbon cowboys: Letscoin and Bluegrace Energy Bolivia
Also featuring Banyan Investment Bank, Quantum Metal, Mbombo Investment Group, Nexus Global One, BGCarbon Bank, NIBank, Maximance 2030, DevvStream, and…
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January 2025

Microsoft’s disastrous US$200 million carbon offset deal in Brazil
“CO₂ uptake by trees should not be used to offset fossil fuel emissions.”
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New documentary investigates IKEA’s destructive logging in Romania
“IKEA loves wood.”
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Chris Lang
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After 12 years of Lao Government misinformation, denial, and cover-ups: “Where is Sombath?”
“The Lao authorities have consistently failed to provide any concrete information.”
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Legal victory for Indigenous pastoralists in Kenya
A major blow to the Northern Rangelands Trust’s Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project.
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Papua New Guinea NGO Act Now received three SLAPPs in 2024
Each one was more ridiculous than the last.
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REDD myth no. 8: Putting a price on carbon makes polluters pay
It’s burning fossil fuels that is driving the climate crisis, not the lack of a price on carbon.
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