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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

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon this year reached the highest rate since 2008

Can flying go green? Spoiler alert: No

Robert Sedgwick: The solicitor who helped London Capital & Finance sell mini-bonds also helped scammers sell “carbon benefit units” from the April Salome REDD project in Papua New Guinea

Natural Climate Questions: Can trees planted in Uganda really offset greenhouse gas emissions from Max Burgers’ fast food chain in Sweden?

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

The failure of the UN Climate Action Summit. Helped by the distraction of Natural Climate Solutions

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

Swedish Energy Agency delays US$1 million carbon credit payment to Green Resources

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

Guest Post: The Amazon fires mark the end of REDD+

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?

REDD in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Civil society letter requests Free, Prior and Informed Consent, review of REDD+ approval decree, a complaints mechanism, and transparent distribution of funds

Democratic Republic of Congo: Civil society monitoring of REDD in Mai Ndombe province reveals that REDD on the ground is failing to adhere to national and international standards

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

James Moore found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy in Renwick Haddow’s Bar Works investment scam

A story of carbon credits, diamonds, and fraud. Featuring London Carbon Market, Carlton Chase, SDKA International, Gurpreet Singh Rai, and the return of Luke Ryan

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

Is the new Natural Climate Solutions campaign a distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground?

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

Norway is planning to pay Indonesia for fudging its REDD carbon accounting

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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