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Leaked: Sabah’s Nature Conservation Agreement

REDD and Natural Climate Solutions are a massive distraction from real climate solutions

IUCN supports 30×30. IUCN claims to be concerned about the rights of Indigenous Peoples. But IUCN bought carbon credits from the Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ project

Sabah’s Nature Conservation Agreement: A two million hectare carbon deal involving a fake director, an inequitable agreement, a history of destructive logging, and massive corruption

Conservation International admits failures in its Alto Mayo Protected Forest REDD project in Peru. But uses the failures as part of its success narrative

The unravelling of Global Forestry Investments continues with £4.7 million in payments from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Verified hot air: how a popular carbon offset project in Peru has taken tens of millions of dollars from hundreds of companies and individuals but done nothing to prevent climate change

Fossil fuels and COP26: The Glasgow climate debacle, part 2

Coal and COP26: The Glasgow climate debacle, part 1

How Malaysia is using forests to under-report its greenhouse gas emissions

What does Uganda’s terrible record of forced evictions in the name of conservation and climate mean for 30×30?

NGOs call for Papua New Guinea’s politicians to address illegal logging and deforestation

Indonesia: Zero deforestation by 2030 is “inappropriate and unfair”

The Glasgow Declaration on Forests is far from “unprecedented”. It’s just another in a long line of meaningless UN declarations

257 groups say NO to nature-based solutions!

Re-branding REDD: How the LEAF Coalition aims to greenwash Big Polluters like Delta Airlines, Amazon, Bayer, Nestlé, Salesforce, and Unilever

“WWF’s leadership is still in a state of denial about its own role in fortress conservation and human rights abuses,” Professor John Knox tells US Congressional Committee

Oilwatch International demands Real Zero, not Net Zero

Papua New Guinea NGO letter: NIHT Inc “is a big concern for its breaches of legal and proper process”

Marseille Manifesto: A people’s manifesto for the future of conservation

NGOs warn of the dangers of Nature-based Solutions: “Carbon dioxide removals do not offset fossil fuel emissions”

Greenpeace calls for phasing out of fossil fuels. “Offsetting allows big polluters to delay and distract from reducing their own emissions”

A trillion trees: A backstory featuring Felix Finkbeiner and Thomas Crowther

New Greenpeace Italy report: Eni’s carbon neutral fossil fuel claims exposed as greenwash. With offsets from the Luangwa Community Forests Project in Zambia

NO to nature-based dispossessions! Sign on to the statement opposing nature-based solutions

Australia’s avoided deforestation carbon credits are “hot air”

More than 40 NGOs join call to stop the lifting of the logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

How the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative is promoting the expansion of industrial tree plantations

The new ‘con’ in conservation: Why the proposed voluntary, Paris Agreement-style, ‘30×30’ target for protected areas won’t save the world’s biodiversity

Plantations are not forests!

Dutch Advertising Watchdog rules Shell’s “CO₂ Neutral” campaign is greenwash

Citadel/Highpoint Trustees under investigation by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Indonesia scraps US$1 billion REDD deal with Norway

Financialisation of nature: A “neoliberal and doomed approach to conservation”

New report reveals large-scale deforestation in Tumring REDD Project in Cambodia

NGOs warn of “an impending climate and biodiversity catastrophe” if the Democratic Republic of Congo lifts its logging moratorium

“Our Land, Our Nature”: A congress to decolonise conservation

Longer prison sentences for carbon fraudsters behind Carbon Positive Trading and Carbon Capital investment scam after they failed to repay stolen funds

How Total’s fantasy of carbon neutral fossil fuel is helped by offsets from the Kariba REDD+ Project in Zimbabwe

Philanthropic organisations write to the Convention on Biological Diversity with concerns about the 30×30 protected areas target in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Finnish carbon offsetting firm Compensate finds 91% of carbon offset projects fail its evaluation process. Of course the remaining 9% will also not help address the climate crisis

Net Zero: The Big Con

Complaint against Green Climate Fund’s REDD project in Nicaragua

Statement from Kichwa Indigenous People opposing exclusionary conservation and REDD in the Cordillera Azul National Park, Peru

“REDD hasn’t contributed to the structural reforms that would improve the recognition and protection of Indigenous Peoples’ rights”: Interview with Tom Younger, Forest Peoples Programme (part 4)

Democratic Republic of Congo plans to lift logging moratorium

Fortress conservation in Wildlife Alliance’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project

AIDESEP warns of “carbon pirates” in Peru

“In the wake of the pandemic the Peruvian Government has been rolling back its social and environmental protections”: Interview with Tom Younger, Forest Peoples Programme (part 3)

“Payment for non-performance”: Norway pays Gabon US$17 million for increasing deforestation

Indigenous Kichwa community takes the Peruvian State and Cordillera Azul National Park to court

“Illegal operations by NIHT Inc”: Kamlapar Incorporated Land Group writes to Papua New Guinea’s Climate Change & Development Authority and Verra

Net zero is not zero

“The Peruvian Government is resisting fulfilling its legal obligations to title Indigenous lands”: Interview with Tom Younger, Forest Peoples Programme (part 2)

Nature is NOT a “solution”: World Rainforest Movement on nature-based dispossessions

Fortress conservation threatens Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area: “The Government is systematically starving us”

Threats to Indigenous Peoples’ collective rights and territories in Peru. Interview with Tom Younger, Forest Peoples Programme (part 1)

Fishing communities in Costa Rica oppose the 30×30 conservation target

Letter in defence of the Amazon and Mother Earth, against the invasion of capital, extreme violence and green scams

How Conservation International’s Blue Carbon mangrove project in Colombia helps greenwash Apple’s extractivist operations

Peru’s new REDD deal with Norway, Germany, the UK and the USA. Much ado about nothing

WWF apologises for human rights abuse allegations and commits to an indigenous-led approach to global conservation

Carbon credit conman Paul Seakens jailed for 13 years. Luke Ryan jailed for six years

Illegal gold mining inside the REDD Project in Brazil Nut Concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru

Madre de Dios Amazon REDD Project: EasyJet’s phantom carbon credits are generated by logging the forest

The Brazilian Amazon is a carbon source not a sink

Switzerland’s offsetting deal with Peru excludes REDD. It will still not reduce emissions

Plant-for-the-Planet: dubious organisational structure, controversial scientific foundation, a lack of professional support, and the failure to verify tree-planting reports

How to make the climate crisis worse: A story of NFTs, blockchain, and carbon offsets from the REDD Project in Brazil Nut Concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru

Anatomy of a ‘Nature-Based Solution’: Total oil, 40,000 hectares of disappearing African savannah

Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist

Kevin Conrad signs REDD deal with Papua New Guinea

How the Green Climate Fund is undermining Nicaraguan Indigenous and Afro-Descendant communities’ struggle for land and Saneamiento

REDD-Minus: New report reveals the reality of REDD in Mai Ndombe, Democratic Republic of Congo

Some questions for Frithjof Finkbeiner, founder of Plant-for-the-Planet

Bill Gates: “Now some of these offsets are very complicated. Ah, you know, trees for example . . .”

Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: The global financial elite’s plan to profit from the climate crisis while maintaining business as usual for Big Oil

Capitalism is driving us to disaster

The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading

Plant for the Planet: Felix Finkbeiner’s fake forests

Open letter to the lead authors of ‘Protecting 30% of the Planet for Nature’: “This paper reads to us like a proposal for a new model of colonialism”