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Call to sign on: NO to REDD! Declaration of the Amazon meeting on carbon projects
Call for organisations and social movements worldwide to endorse this declaration.
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In 2024, for the second year running, forests stopped acting as a carbon sink
And the Trump regime covered up NOAA's findings of a record CO₂ increase.
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In 2023 the world’s forests stopped acting as a carbon sink
“We cannot count on ecosystems to bail us out in the future.”
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“NO to REDD and Carbon Markets”
A new documentary from World Rainforest Movement.
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AI climate hopium is going to burn the planet
Far from solving the climate crisis, AI is making it worse.
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Aspiration is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the quality of its carbon offsets
How Aspiration went from a fintech investment firm to a carbon broker.
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New study finds that it would be better to leave fossil fuels in the ground rather than attempting to offset ever-increasing emissions
Tree planting is a false solution to the climate crisis. And there just isn't enough land to offset emissions from burning fossil fuels.
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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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COP29 approval of Article 6.4 is “opening the floodgates for a global carbon market that will have devastating impacts on communities in the…
Carbon markets are not climate finance.
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The Tropical Forests Forever Facility: “The worst conservation fund ever?”
Another false solution for tropical forests.
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“I probably will go to jail,” says Steve Wentzel, the man behind the Kariba REDD+ project in Zimbabwe
New article in The New Yorker by Heidi Blake, “The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle”.
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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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