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ORF documentary investigates the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia: “We are no longer allowed to use the forest. We are no longer allowed to grow anything”

Carbon Market Watch files a complaint about Verra’s “review” of the Southern Cardamom REDD project in Cambodia

I was accused of perpetuating “gendered and potentially racialised oppression”

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approves three REDD methodologies. Risk of millions of credits that are “non-additional, significantly over-credited, and of low permanence”

ORF documentary investigates Rimba Raya REDD project in Indonesia: “All empty promises”

84% of carbon credits are junk

Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part II: Jeff Bezos’ megayacht

Using carbon credits to close coal plants will not deliver climate benefits

“Continuing to stand behind the fallacy that carbon offsetting approaches will get us out of the climate crisis is now untenable”

REDD myth no. 6: “Carbon markets are climate finance”

Illegal logging associated with hydropower dam construction in Southern Cardamom REDD project, Cambodia

COP29’s “Get out of jail free” card: Article 6 carbon trading mechanisms

REDD-Monitor stands in solidarity with Antonio Tricarico of ReCommon. Oil giant Eni has pressed charges against Tricarico for defamation

COP29 media statement from Papua New Guinea Environmental Alliance

The Guanaré carbon project: How a eucalyptus monoculture in Uruguay is greenwashing Big Polluters

As COP29 edges towards a disastrous agreement on carbon markets, the Durban Group for Climate Justice reaffirms its opposition to carbon trading

Green oil? Suriname is planning to use Indigenous Peoples’ forests to greenwash TotalEnergies’ oil extraction

The great REDD climate illusion

Gabriel Labbate’s carbon market fallacies

COP29 approval of Article 6.4 is “opening the floodgates for a global carbon market that will have devastating impacts on communities in the Global South”

The US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap is a “bogus figure devised by US conservation corporations in collaboration with investment banks to promote private investment and market-based mechanisms”

Biomass Action Network calls for Real Solutions at COP29

“Article 6 is not about saving the planet. The COPs are not about climate change. This is about profit.” Interview with Dr. Tamra Gilbertson of Indigenous Environmental Network

REDD myth no. 5: “Carbon offsets reduce emissions”

The biodiversity funding gap “is a dangerous way to approach debates about what is needed to transform societies to improve nature conservation”

Nike’s non-additional carbon credits from 2006 have found a new life. In ACR’s buffer pool

African Agriculture Holdings Inc.: Oil companies, agribusiness, carbon credits, land grabs, water grabs, and tax havens aplenty

Verra has sacked one-quarter of its staff

Conflicts of interest and Verra’s cancellation of 5 million C-Quest cookstove carbon credits

Biodiversity offsets and credits: “ecological impacts, land dispossession, loss of livelihoods and systematic violations of individual and collective rights of the affected communities”

The Democratic Republic of Congo has cancelled 27 oil exploration blocks

Indigenous leaders were not consulted about US$180 million LEAF Coalition REDD deal in Pará. “We are being sold like goods”

Woody biomass is a false climate solution and a massive threat to Indonesia’s forests

The Brazilian Amazon is burning. Yet again

Real Zero not Net Zero: “The only solution is to stop burning fossil fuels”

US$180 million worth of carbon credits for sale to Big Polluters from the state of Pará, Brazil

Biodiversity credits: A “new form of green colonization plundering agricultural land for the benefit of financialization”

Ken Newcombe, ex-CEO of C-Quest Capital, faces criminal charges for multi-year carbon credit fraud

Amerindian Peoples Association highlights concerns about REDD in Guyana: “What looks good on paper isn’t always good in practice”

How the Commodity Futures Trading Commission failed to regulate voluntary carbon credits

The UK’s new climate envoy, Rachel Kyte, imagines carbon as “the currency of the 21st century”

Verra records largest ever loss of more than US$9 million

World Bank-funded Zambézia Integration Landscape Management Programme in Mozambique has failed to stop deforestation. “Minimal benefits” have reached local communities

George Monbiot: Offsets are “exchanging a certainty of destruction against a possibility of salvation”

From land grabbers to carbon cowboys

Authors of paper debunking baseless statistic about Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity respond to critics

Flowcarbon is refunding investors after failing to launch its carbon credit crypto token

Book review: Less is More by Jason Hickel

Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement

Germany’s ongoing €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud: “It is possible that we are dealing with a case of serious environmental crime here”

Indigenous Peoples are crucially important to protecting biodiversity, but the claim that 80% of biodiversity is found on Indigenous lands is not based on science

Colombia’s Constitutional Court rules in favour of Indigenous Peoples. Identifies serious flaws in the REDD+ Baka Rokarire project

Forest Stewardship Council “provisionally suspends” logging company operating in the territory of the uncontacted Mashco Piro

Colonial conservation at work: Mangrove replanting in Sénégal for carbon offsets

Carbon projects are projects of death

Ending fortress conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

BBC Panorama documentary on the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia: “More than half of the credits from that project are not real offsets”

Big Polluters are buying cheap, old, junk carbon offsets

“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions and loss of basic rights

Brazil’s Federal Prosecution Office has issued a recommendation to suspend REDD in Indigenous and traditional territories in Amazonas

Book review: The Carbon Credit Crusader by Monty Nereim

Surprise, surprise! Article 6 carbon credits face exactly the same problems as voluntary carbon credits

I’ve stopped using Twitter. And you should too

World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund are greenwashing the livestock industry

Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees

In 2023 the world’s forests stopped acting as a carbon sink

The African Commission recognises the rights of Indigenous Batwa people to return to their ancestral lands inside the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Ongoing land rights disputes in the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia

Call to sign on: NO to REDD! Declaration of the Amazon meeting on carbon projects

Amazon Indigenous organisations write to Forest Stewardship Council calling for the cancellation of FSC’s certification of a logging concession inside the territory of the uncontacted Mashco Piro

“Various types of carbon credits are ineffective,” says the Science Based Targets initiative

“REDD projects are projects of death,” say Ka’apor Indigenous People in the State of Maranhão, Brazil

Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects

Out of the frying pan and into the fire: The United Nations opposes voluntary carbon credits, while proposing carbon trading under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

Greenpeace accuses UN Deputy Secretary-General of greenwashing an “ecocidal oil permit” in Conkouati-Douli National Park in the Republic of Congo

Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits

Jakarta State Administrative Court overturns decision to revoke Rimba Raya REDD project’s license

James Moore, one of the Bar Works scammers, has died in prison in the US

Finite Carbon is majority owned by BP, one of the world's biggest polluters. It sells carbon offsets from trees that are not in danger

US crypto Ponzi scheme ordered to pay US$83 million in restitution

Interview with Wayne Sharpe, CEO of Carbon Trade Exchange, about the forthcoming auction of 1.5 million carbon credits from a cookstove project in Malawi

80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility and transparency of carbon offsetting schemes

Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits

Calls for the immediate release of Mother Nature Cambodia activists after court sentences them to prison

Running Tide dumped woodchips into the sea off the coast of Iceland to generate 25,000 unverified carbon removal credits. The company has now closed down

Why carbon offsetting undermines climate targets

Neither Trump nor Biden argued coherently for climate action in the presidential debate

“Over-issuance of millions of carbon credits”: C-Quest Capital announces “wrongdoing” by its former CEO, Ken Newcombe

The Marajó REDD Project in Brazil: The company has become an “agent of violence”, promoting “true chaos within the territories”

More responses to the Science Based Targets initiative decision about including carbon offsets: “ineffective, harmful even, to the climate cause”

BBC Panorama documentary on the Southern Cardamom REDD project in Cambodia: Human rights abuses, road construction, and a hydropower dam

Germany’s €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud

Gucci’s sustainability claims rely on carbon offsets and accounting tricks

Yet more evidence that Big Polluters are using junk offsets to avoid climate action

A company called Carbon Done Right claims to be doing the right thing in Sierra Leone. It isn’t

Operation Greenwashing: Brazil’s Federal Police carry out operation against criminal group suspected of selling US$34 million illegal carbon credits

The US Government’s carbon credit wish list

Carbon Green Investments to withdraw the Kariba REDD project from Verra’s registry

BBC Panorama documentary on the Kasigau REDD project in Kenya: Evictions, sexual harassment, and “dog training”

Tullow Oil signs US$90 million REDD deal with Ghana

UK Conservative Party donor Peter Virdee charged with bribery

BBC Panorama documentary: “A lot of these offsets that have been sold on the voluntary carbon market are essentially worthless”

GREEN+: A massive programme to financialise and trade the carbon in Latin America’s forests

“The Carbon Market Regulation was not validated, still lacks clarity and substance, and cannot be completed without further public stakeholder consultation,” Papua New Guinea NGOs tell the government

Kenya: Stop evicting Sengwer Indigenous Peoples!

Trees for Global Benefits: “Climate neutral” burgers in Sweden. Starvation in Uganda

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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