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Indonesia’s Katingan REDD project sells carbon credits to Shell. But that doesn’t mean the forest is protected. It’s threatened by land conflicts, fires and a palm oil plantation

Launched at COP25, IETA’s Markets for Natural Climate Solutions is greenwash for the oil industry

Radio 4’s Anatomy of a Fraud: Featuring World Commodity Trading, Heritage FA, Eco-Synergies, IGL Labs UK, Diffraction Diamonds DMCC, Diffraction Limited, Citadel Trustees

Can flying go green? Spoiler alert: No

Total greenwash: Total CEO announces oil company will spend US$100 million a year on forest protection and reforestation

“The claim that global tree restoration is our most effective climate change solution is simply incorrect scientifically and dangerously misleading”

Felix Finkbeiner’s fairy tales about tree planting

A new threat to the Maasai in Ngorongoro District of Tanzania

Remember the headlines: Tree planting is our “most effective climate change solution”? Well, it would take 200 years, and we can only plant 10% of the area, says Tom Crowther of ETH-Zürich

Gabon signs US$150 million REDD deal with Norway. Shhh… Don’t mention corruption

“Nature cannot be fooled.” Kevin Anderson on mitigation as if climate mattered

Qantas is selling carbon offsets from Papua New Guinea’s April Salumei REDD project to offset its flights. Meanwhile, the PNG government just announced that the project was halted

Planting trees and restoring forests is not going to stop climate breakdown. “We need a rapid end to fossil energy use precisely because we want to preserve the world’s existing forests”

Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?

Forest of Fear. Channel 4’s documentary about WWF-funded eco-guards near the proposed Messok Dja National Park in the Republic of Congo

Shell and Natural Climate Solutions: US$300 million for carbon offsets

“Torture, murder, rape”: WWF must release its report about abuses carried out by eco-guards in Salonga National Park

Oil company Eni plans 8.1 million hectare land grab in Africa for carbon offset plantations

WWF scandal (part 10): BuzzFeed News investigation reveals WWF’s secret war

Is carbon credit scammer Sami Raja in prison in the UK, or still scamming in Dubai? Or both?

Climate breakdown: Forests and soils are reaching the limit of CO₂ absorption

Carbon credit scammer Sami Raja sentenced to eight years in prison

Norway’s support for REDD: The new colonialism and the failure of democracy

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