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The Science Based Targets initiatives caves in to corporate lobbying

First Article 6.4 carbon credits from cookstove project in war-torn Myanmar

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has “delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret industry-led working group”

“Ghost carbon.” How the Livelihoods’ Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal overestimated how many carbon credits the project generated

Climate denialism, neoliberalism, fossil fuels, extractivism, AI, and carbon trading

Aspiration Partners co-founder Joe Sanberg sentenced to 14 years in prison for US$248 million fraud

Pig Feast: Colonialism in our time

Financial secrets of the forests

Millions of fake Chinese carbon offsets have been bought in European countries

Tomorrow’s Tropical Forests Forever Facility meeting is shrouded in secrecy

The Petrobras “carbon neutral” greenwash machine continues

Earth’s Greatest Enemy: “You can’t green a global military empire”

Free, prior and informed consent? Not at the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary REDD project in Cambodia

Guest Post: Carbon Credits, Conservancies and the Lie We Were Sold

Liberian NGOs urge President Boakai to delay signing Carbon Development Policy

New study warns that deforestation means that the Amazon tipping point could be closer than previously thought

98% of meat and dairy industry’s sustainability claims are greenwash

Why Verra should not certify the Longido and Monduli Rangelands Carbon project in Tanzania

Red lines for airports

The Khasi Hills Community REDD+ project: “The slow enclosure of the commons”

Indigenous Peoples tell UN: “Jaguars Are NOT Carbon Credits! and Stop Digital Colonialism!”

Civil society demands World Bank withdraw from the Board of Peace

UN experts urge Tanzania’s government to stop evictions of Maasai Indigenous communities from Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Transparency International US: Conflicts of interest in carbon markets are “pervasive”

Row erupts over Verra’s ‘Avoided Baby’ carbon credits

Greenwashing destruction: APRIL’s Kampar Peninsula REDD project in Indonesia

REDDisms: March 2026

Billionaires aren't going to save the planet: Bill Gates and Rutger Bregman

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility beat goes on

Forests mean life, not “business”

Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office files lawsuits against three of Ricardo Stoppe Júnior’s REDD projects in Amazonas

Sham Presidential Commissions in Tanzania recommend mass evictions of Indigenous Maasai from Ngorongoro Conservation Area

How a US$29.5 million deal failed to deliver a single carbon credit. Featuring Zero Carbon Holdings, Four Thirteen, Aspiration Partners, Sea Purity Investments, and MidiaGeo

Outgrowing offsetting: “Offsetting is the wrong way to think about climate action altogether — pastoralism exposes why”

Verra suspended the Pacajai REDD project in September 2023. Companies have retired more than 2 million carbon credits from the project since then

“The dynamics of social-ecological systems pose a fundamental challenge to attributing changes in carbon stocks to actions taken by carbon offset projects.” Interview with Dr. Pushpendra Rana

How the UK government suppressed, then ignored, its own report on how ecosystem collapse threatens national security

Article 6 carbon credits would allow the EU to emit 50% more greenhouse gas emissions in 2040

“Entire communities now live in fear and despair.” How the Tanzanian government profits from tourism while cracking down on Indigenous Peoples in Ruaha National Park

The Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary REDD project in Cambodia is threatened by mining operations and a hydropower dam

Malawi has signed a 40-year contract with Portuguese engineering firm Mota-Engil to generate carbon credits from 550,000 hectares of the country’s forests

New research shows that social-ecological complexity creates “high levels of uncertainty” and makes it “very difficult” to attribute changes in carbon storage to carbon offset projects

The carbon land grab: A debate between GRAIN and the Land Matrix

Carbon colonialism: The Makira REDD project in Madagascar

How the UNHCR is using refugees in Uganda and Rwanda to generate carbon credits

Communities in Zimbabwe received nothing from carbon credit sales in C-Quest’s cookstove projects

REDDisms: February 2026

Indigenous Peoples threatened with violence, livestock theft, and evictions from Mukogodo Forest, Kenya

KOKO Networks’ cookstove carbon credits in Kenya were “largely hot air”

Confusion and alarm over ASC Impact’s carbon plantations in Gambella, Ethiopia

Six Malagasy civil society organisations have written to Verra to complain about Tozzi Green’s carbon plantation land grab in Madagascar

The collapse of KOKO Networks. A cookstoves project in Kenya that relied on compliance carbon trading

Carbon trading under Article 6 threatens to make the climate crisis worse

“The launch of 500 million Carbon Coins appears to be inconsistent” with the Verra Registry Terms

The “biggest bank fraud” in Brazil’s history involves carbon credits from Fazenda Floresta Amazônica, a Brasil Mata Viva project

No, Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum was not “pretty good”

Crooked Carbon Business: Overview of documentation

DiEM25: “We reject the World Economic Forum as a fortress of authoritarian power”

New Scientist: Carbon offsets are one of the five worst ideas of the 21st century

East African Carbon Company claims to be setting up carbon projects in Uganda. It is a subsidiary of Alpha MBM Investments, a Dubai-based company developing a US$4 billion oil refinery in Uganda

Crooked Carbon Business: Livelihoods’ Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal

China Carbon Neutral Development Group has issued 500 million “Carbon Coins”

Caveat emptor: Auditors can’t save carbon offsets

Crooked Carbon Business: Trees for Global Benefits in Uganda

It’s all about oil: The Trump regime’s illegal military attack on Venezuela and kidnap of President Maduro

The carbon land grab in Kenya

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