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Crooked Carbon Business: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, Guyana
Far from solving the problems of REDD projects, jurisdictional REDD magnifies the problems.
21 hrs ago • 
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Joe Sanberg, co-founder of carbon trading company Aspiration, pleads guilty to US$248 million fraud
But will the Commodity Futures Trading Commission complete its investigation into the carbon credits that Aspiration bought?
Oct 22 • 
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Climate policy experts call for “excluding or phasing out offsets from carbon-pricing schemes and other climate policy processes”
A call to “act on the science”.
Oct 21 • 
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Book review: Carbon Credits are Crap by Jaye Connolly
True. Carbon credits are crap. Unfortunately so is this book.
Oct 20 • 
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REDDisms: October 2025
An occasional series of the things people say about carbon trading, the climate crisis, and REDD.
Oct 16 • 
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Using carbon offsets to retire coal plants risks increasing emissions
New report from Reclaim Finance and the Center for Energy, Ecology and Development in the Philippines.
Oct 15 • 
Chris Lang
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A carbon land grab in the Democratic Republic of Congo
New report by Rainforest Foundation UK exposes the impacts of forest carbon projects.
Oct 14 • 
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“Economists have had more influence on climate policy than atmospheric scientists. I think that should cause everyone to pause and consider…
Interview with Nat Dyer, author of the book “Ricardo’s Dream: How economists forgot the real world and led us astray”.
Oct 13 • 
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“We live a social injustice because we have been dispossessed”
A new briefing documents how Indigenous Peoples in Peru lost their rights with the creation of the Cordillera Azul REDD project and the the Cordillera…
Oct 10 • 
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Cancelled artwork in Belém generates 57,765 Cultural Degrowth Credits
“An artwork to help the world breath better.”
Oct 9 • 
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Tanzania must respect the rights of Maasai Indigenous People living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Oakland Institute calls on the Tanzanian government to recognise Maasai human rights and land rights.
Oct 8 • 
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“Many of the most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems”
The “most comprehensive review of evidence” finds that carbon offsets just don't work.
Oct 7 • 
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