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If IUCN Coin “does not collaborate with the International Union for Conservation of Nature”, why is the cryptocurrency called IUCN Coin?

Indonesian government revokes Rimba Raya REDD project’s license

Amnesty International: “UN Special Rapporteur is right to raise human rights concerns about carbon markets”

“Let me stop you right there.” The BBC’s missed opportunity to talk about colonialism, elite capture, the climate crisis and Exxon’s carbon bomb in Guyana

UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples calls for moratorium on carbon markets

Thomson Safaris’ landgrab of Indigenous Maasai land in Tanzania

How audit firms failed to identify or report on sexual harassment and abuse at Wildlife Work’s Kasigau Corridor REDD project in Kenya

Science Based Targets initiative and carbon offsets: “This isn’t a science-based decision”

“This will finish us”. Conservation, trophy hunting, and tourism is destroying Maasai livelihoods and culture in northern Tanzania

Notorious logging company Samling hopes to cash in on carbon in Sarawak, Malaysia

New US carbon debits scheme makes first issuances

How the the African Forest Restoration Initiative threatens savannas and grasslands

Kenya Human Rights Commission and SOMO respond to accusations of “questionable” research methods at the Kasigau REDD project

More than 100 NGOs urge US special envoy John Podesta to oppose carbon markets and offsets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

UN letter to the State Government of Sabah raises transparency and human rights concerns with the two million hectare Nature Conservation Agreement

BluEarth Carbon Development’s dodgy carbon deals in Liberia

The Kariba REDD project, Zimbabwe: “The community is complaining because they are not seeing money trickle down”

IKEA and Poland: “Should every area of Poland’s forest suffer such brutal logging operations?”

IKEA and New Zealand: “It’s like another kind of colonisation”

IKEA and Brazil: “This furniture industry relies on ecological degradation and profits from it”

IKEA and Sweden: “It is clearcutting. That’s where the wood comes from”

IKEA and Romania: “It’s as if they really hate nature”

IKEA and the Forest Stewardship Council: “Don’t believe the greenwashing”

IKEA: The timber monster

Human Rights Watch report on Southern Cardamom REDD project in Cambodia

Republic of Congo approves oil exploration in Conkouati-Douli

Voluntary carbon markets: “decades of misrepresentation, mismanagement, and fraud”

Slave labour used to clear forests in the Maísa REDD+ project, Brazil

Samuele Landi, former adviser to Blue Carbon LLC, found dead after a storm destroyed the barge he was living on

Gabon’s media calls Lee White, “Satan of the Waters and the Forests”

Why we cannot rely on land-based CO₂ removal to address the climate and biodiversity crises

Survival International: “Verra’s ‘review’ of the Northern Rangelands Trust carbon offsetting project in Kenya is a shocking whitewash”

“Weaving the defence of the Kichwa territory in the face of the conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park”

The return of the capitalist of chaos: Philippe Heilberg and a US$1 billion carbon deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and dClimate

No, the World Economic Forum is not coming for your coffee

Article 6: A loophole that risks undermining the Paris Agreement

Indigenous Baka people accuse African Parks of “cruel and inhumane” abuse at the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo

In the name of conservation: The Tanzanian government is escalating its campaign of violence and evictions against Indigenous People

More details about ONE Amazon’s proposal to preserve the Amazon biome with a digital asset security

Aspiration is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the quality of its carbon offsets

Alki David receives cease and desist letter from Verra over SwissX’s coral REDD++ project in Antigua and Barbuda

Cheat Neutral

Phantom carbon credits from Bosques Amazónicos’ REDD project in Brazil nut concessions, Peru

“So-called nature-based solutions are not suitable or available at a scale that we can use them to compensate for today’s emissions”

SavePlanetEarth launches Planetary Carbon Standard: “We are the pioneers in this side of the carbon credit industry”

Carbon credit investment scammer Paul Seakens forced to repay £1 million to victims

FG Capital Advisors is launching a Carbon Token in 2025. First choice for projects are peatlands in the Congo Basin

Wildlife Alliance rejects allegations of human rights abuses at the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project

Nemus Earth doesn’t own the land in Brazil that is linked to its sales of NFTs

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