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“When the eucalyptus comes everything falls away.” Monoculture eucalyptus plantations to supply charcoal to the steel industry in Brazil are not a climate solution

Crooked Carbon Business: Carbon offset projects in Portel, Brazil

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility has raised just over US$2 billion. Almost entirely from Brazil and Indonesia

“Biofuels and carbon markets do not raise climate ambition”

Indonesia’s carbon trading at COP30 slammed by climate justice activists

EU weakens its 2040 climate goal with an international carbon credits loophole

Survival International: “Nature-based offset projects enable polluters to continue high emissions under the guise of carbon ‘neutrality’”

Crooked Carbon Business: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation project, Indonesia

No to REDD! “Our territories are sacred, and we do not put a price on that which gives us life”

Sigma Lithium claims that its mine in Brazil is “carbon neutral”. It bought REDD carbon credits from the Unitor REDD project, which is now suspended and accused of illegal logging

The Kariba REDD project reveals a “deep structural flaw” in Verra’s carbon credit programme

Latin American and Caribbean social organisations denounce “Carbon colonialism and the exacerbation of inequality based on racism and patriarchy”

Crooked Carbon Business: Hawk Mountain Improved Forest Management Project, USA

STOP the TFFF now!

The Green Home Ponzi scheme has collapsed in Peru

New carbon credit regulation in the Philippines is “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”

TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing

Crooked Carbon Business: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, Guyana

Joe Sanberg, co-founder of carbon trading company Aspiration, pleads guilty to US$248 million fraud

Climate policy experts call for “excluding or phasing out offsets from carbon-pricing schemes and other climate policy processes”

Book review: Carbon Credits are Crap by Jaye Connolly

REDDisms: October 2025

Using carbon offsets to retire coal plants risks increasing emissions

A carbon land grab in the Democratic Republic of Congo

“Economists have had more influence on climate policy than atmospheric scientists. I think that should cause everyone to pause and consider whether that’s for the best.” Interview with Nat Dyer

“We live a social injustice because we have been dispossessed”

Cancelled artwork in Belém generates 57,765 Cultural Degrowth Credits

Tanzania must respect the rights of Maasai Indigenous People living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area

“Many of the most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems”

Carbon Negative: A theatre performance that exposes climate colonialism

Isangi REDD project: “Emissions reductions were likely short-lived if they occurred at all”

15.2 million fake carbon credits were sold from the Kariba REDD project according to Verra

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility: “A fund for wealthy people and Wall Street”

“Bolivia Burning”: New documentary exposes deforestation by the Mennonites with complicity from Cargill

Declaration of Túpac Amaru: “We warn that carbon markets promote the dispossession of our territories”

“Science-based decision-making entails making rapid, dramatic, and sustained emission reductions” not CO₂ removals and offsets

A company called Green Home is running a carbon credit Ponzi scheme in Peru

Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: The Bezos Earth Fund, AI, and carbon offsets

Greenwash! Asia Pulp and Paper’s new “sustainability” policy

Forest cleared for Irrigation Dam 2 construction overlaps proposed Samkos REDD project in Cambodia

“The potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero”

Terra Global Capital and Anew Climate: How a US$640 million carbon deal fell apart

Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: Featuring Steve Ballmer, Aspiration Partners, the LA Clippers, and Kawhi Leonard’s “no show” endorsement deal

The EU is proposing to buy hundreds of millions of carbon credits by 2040. With no analysis of either the economic or the climatic impacts

Apple buys carbon credits from eucalyptus monocultures in Paraguay. Nearby communities and a school are exposed to dangerous agrochemicals

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is based on high risk, not easy profits

Natural capital accounting: “These narratives have entrenched the fallacy that markets and market-based mechanisms can or will solve these ecosystem challenges”

A proposal for funding nature-based climate solutions without carbon markets

German court rules that Apple Watch is not “carbon neutral”

Joe Sanberg, co-founder of Aspiration Partners, to plead guilty to US$248 million scheme to defraud investors

Protecting communities from carbon markets

Norway’s Oil Fund is investing in Rio Tinto and South32, mining companies responsible for deforesting large areas of the Amazon rainforest

“Dispossession disguised as conservation.” How a German company is buying up rainforest in Ecuador and violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples

DRC’s 52 new oil blocks threaten vast areas of rainforest, peatlands, people, and the planet

The International Court of Justice says that countries are accountable for harm to the climate. What does this mean for carbon markets?

Microsoft won’t save the planet: “Finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today”

Merlin Thompson jailed for two years for selling fake carbon credits under Oregon’s carbon credit programme

Recently contacted Indigenous communities in Peru call for a halt to extractive projects, fortress conservation, and REDD in areas inhabited by isolated peoples

A “green rush” for carbon offsets is fuelling land grabs in the Global South

“People in Isangi wonder why they didn’t get a better share”

Brazil’s “devastation bill” is a major embarrassment for President Lula ahead of COP30

Washington Department of Ecology fines Climate Care Innovations US$425,000

Editorial in Science magazine confirms the conflict of interest at the heart of carbon offsetting: Auditors paid by project developers

“All Ka’apor know how to live in the forest and from the forest without destroying it”

Illegal logging and REDD in Brazil

“We will not stop until we get back our dispossessed territories!” Statement by the Ethnic Council of the Kichwa Peoples of Amazonia about the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru

New research finds that Verra’s buffer pool for REDD projects is way too small

“Carbon markets are a failed model of climate finance that prioritises profits over people and delays over action”

Once again, Chevron has been caught buying carbon credits from a REDD project in Colombia that was developed without Indigenous Peoples knowing about it

At last! Forest Stewardship Council admits that it has certified logging operations on the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation

Record breaking areas of Brazil’s land goes up in flames. And Earth Innovation Institute proposes the false solution of selling carbon credits to the oil and gas industry

Singapore Government Agencies warn about crypto carbon credit scam

Kick Big Polluters out of COP30!

Built to fail. New report from Corporate Accountability reveals that carbon offset projects still fail to deliver

The LEAF Coalition’s REDD deal in Pará faces a lawsuit and opposition from Indigenous and Quilombola communities

New study finds that it would be better to leave fossil fuels in the ground rather than attempting to offset ever-increasing emissions

SwissX’s Soil Booster™ programme is one more ridiculously obvious climate scam

Brazil’s auction of oil and gas exploration blocks is “scientifically unsustainable, legally indefensible and morally unjustifiable”

The Blattner family’s Isangi REDD project in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been cancelled

UN University report warns against carbon credits from REDD, tree planting, and improved forest management

Open letter opposing international carbon credits in EU climate targets

Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American ecocide

Federal court in Brazil rules against Wildlife Works’ REDD project on Indigenous Ka’apor territory

Film review: The Invisible Doctrine is a brilliant analysis of neoliberalism, ruined by the use of AI generated images

Deforestation from gold mining inside the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility project in the Republic of Congo

Climeworks: The carbon capture company that emits more than it captures

What has happened to Verra’s “investigation” into the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe?

TotalEnergies abandons its carbon plantations in the Republic of Congo

Indigenous delegation to London demands stronger action from UK government to protect forests and support Indigenous rights

Carbon cowboys plan REDD-type projects inside the proposed Atacuari Indigenous Reserve in Peru

The idea of using trees and soils to offset emissions from burning fossil fuels is “scientifically flawed”

Deforestation of tropical forests hit a record high in 2024. Fire caused almost half the destruction

Petition launched in solidarity with communities in Marudi district, Sarawak who are opposing Samling’s carbon credit land grab

“Offsets do not prevent or undo the harms caused by burning fossil fuels,” Energy Australia admits

“Recipe for Greenwashing:” New report calls for a ban on international credits in South Korea’s Emissions Trading System

“We must say NO! to this Green Economy regime.” Indigenous Environmental Network calls for a moratorium on all false solutions to the climate crisis

“Answered in the documents:” How Paul Rowett, co-founder of Toco, avoided answering REDD-Monitor’s questions

Verra has suspended the Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon project for the second time

“NO to REDD and Carbon Markets”

The return of the carbon bomb: Democratic Republic of Congo opens 52 oil exploration blocks in the Cuvette Centrale peatlands

Brazil’s Federal Prosecution Office files lawsuit against Ciaran Kelly’s firm Go Balance to cancel Trocano Araretama REDD project

“Don’t use rainforests or any other carbon sink as a way to offset your reliance on fossil fuel.” Interview with Martin Simonneau, Cool Earth

A response from Paul Rowett, co-founder of Toco: “Redesigning Market Systems to Drive Climate Action”

NGOs urge the UK Government to protect tropical rainforest funding from foreign aid cuts

Companies calling themselves Vado Administration and Startplant Services are running a recovery room scam

Tony Blair is a climate lobbyist for Big Tech and Big Polluters

Guyana’s Amerindian Peoples Association at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: “We were not properly consulted on how our forests and lands would be used”

In 2024, for the second year running, forests stopped acting as a carbon sink

AI climate hopium is going to burn the planet

Friends of the Earth new report on biodiversity and climate crises: “REDD is not an effective climate solution”

Guy Conroy, director of Brazilian teak plantation investment scam company Green IS Group, has been banned as a company director

Some questions for Andrew Gilmour, CEO of Laconic Infrastructure Partners Inc.

Papua New Guinea has lifted its moratorium on REDD voluntary carbon market projects

Study in the Colombian Amazon reveals that REDD projects exacerbate conflict in Indigenous communities

Carbon pirates: The fake country of the United States of Kailasa and its “perpetual” land grabs in Bolivia

Court upholds ban on Northern Rangelands Trust’s Blood Carbon operations in Isiolo, Kenya

Indonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua

Bolivia’s US$1.2 billion forest carbon deal is a false solution

Book review: The Value of a Whale by Adrienne Buller

Offsets discredited. Again

“Putting a price on nature opens the door to its financialisation, not its protection”

More than 75 Civil Society organisations call on Dutch development bank FMO to stop investing in industrial tree plantations

Aspiration Partners, a company that signed a deal to sell 6.75 million carbon credits to Meta, has filed for bankruptcy

The delusion of meeting the 1.5°C target is based on covering vast areas of the planet in tree plantations

Book review: Ricardo’s Dream by Nat Dyer

Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism gets off to a bad start with a Clean Development Mechanism cookstoves project in Myanmar

REDD+ Alert: World Bank discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the East Kalimantan jurisdictional REDD project

Land grab: Tozzi Green’s carbon plantations in Madagascar

Indonesia’s political appointments raise transparency and accountability concerns regarding Norway’s forest funding in the country

The Tropical Forests Forever Facility: “The worst conservation fund ever?”

Who is Renato Costa, CEO of Global Edge Worldwide Fund, that just promised US$100 million for ONE Amazon?

Southern Cardamom REDD project still threatens Indigenous Chong communities’ livelihoods in Cambodia

Forestry researchers raise serious concerns about REDD: Focus on carbon markets leading to “lesser scrutiny of safeguards”

Carbon projects threaten a land grab of Maasai territory in Northern Tanzania

ONE Amazon’s Peter Knez: “We think of the Amazon as a nature based asset”

C-Quest files for bankruptcy. Bridge Carbon continues to market its cookstove carbon offsets

Aspiration’s Joe Sanberg arrested

Carbify: Tree planting; An online game; The blockchain; A crypto coin; and NFTrees

Marudi Indigenous communities oppose Samling’s carbon project in Sarawak, Malaysia

New report finds that Indonesia’s claim of 90% reduction of deforestation since 2016 is based on “cherry picking” and “exaggerates the decline”

Open letter: “The $700 billion for nature restoration is not based on scientific analysis”

Criminal fraud case against major Democrat donor Ibrahim AlHusseini dismissed

Jean Bilala was a conman long before his Letscoin scam

Why the Science Based Targets initiative should not allow carbon offsets

Plant-for-the-Planet promises reforestation. Meanwhile Frithjof Finkbeiner is clearing forest for luxury housing

“We are stuck like chickens in a cage.” How an Indigenous Bunong woman describes living in the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia

Toco: A cryptocurrency backed by carbon offsets. What could possibly go wrong?

The destruction of USAID

The crypto carbon cowboys: Letscoin and Bluegrace Energy Bolivia

Microsoft’s disastrous US$200 million carbon offset deal in Brazil

New documentary investigates IKEA’s destructive logging in Romania

After 12 years of Lao Government misinformation, denial, and cover-ups: “Where is Sombath?”

Legal victory for Indigenous pastoralists in Kenya

Papua New Guinea NGO Act Now received three SLAPPs in 2024

REDD myth no. 8: Putting a price on carbon makes polluters pay

“Our leaders are misusing that money. Nobody knows about carbon.” DW documentary on the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project, Kenya

Sengwer homes burned down again in Embobut forest, Kenya

Debunking Carbon Tanzania’s claims about the Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD project

UN experts expressed “serious concerns” about the gavelling through of carbon trading rules at COP29 in Baku

The unravelling of Aspiration and the arrest of Ibrahim AlHusseini. “Clean rich is the new filthy rich”

The Tohmle Statement: Stop “carbon credit and so called ‘green’ or ‘clean’ energy projects on our lands, territories and waters” without Free, Prior and Informed Consent

Indonesia’s President Prabowo confuses palm oil plantations and rainforests

REDD myth no. 7: “Carbon markets can be fixed”

German court rules against Eurowings’ adverts for “CO₂ neutral” flying

Big Tech’s false solution to ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions? You guessed it, carbon credits

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