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Questions raised about Finnfund’s support to Tozzi Green’s land grab for carbon plantations in Madagascar
Finnish and Belgian development finance institutions are funding a land grab.
Aug 14
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Chris Lang
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The Petrobras “carbon neutral” greenwash machine continues
Extracting ever more fossil fuels cannot possibly be “carbon neutral”.
May 21
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Chris Lang
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The Khasi Hills Community REDD+ project: “The slow enclosure of the commons”
Focus on the Global South’s Angshuman Sarma recently wrote about the project.
Apr 29
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Chris Lang
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Greenwashing destruction: APRIL’s Kampar Peninsula REDD project in Indonesia
Will Verra approve millions more fake carbon credits?
Mar 31
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Chris Lang
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“The dynamics of social-ecological systems pose a fundamental challenge to attributing changes in carbon stocks to actions taken by carbon…
“The challenge is not simply poor measurement, weak data, or the absence of improved methodologies.”
Mar 9
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Chris Lang
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New research shows that social-ecological complexity creates “high levels of uncertainty” and makes it “very difficult” to attribute changes…
Social-ecological complexity “makes any carbon additionality estimation fragile”.
Feb 23
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Chris Lang
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Carbon trading under Article 6 threatens to make the climate crisis worse
UN standards inevitably fail to address the flaws in inherent in carbon trading.
Feb 2
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Chris Lang
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New Scientist: Carbon offsets are one of the five worst ideas of the 21st century
Along with Bitcoin, Social media, Alternative fuels, and Effective altruism.
Jan 20
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Chris Lang
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Crooked Carbon Business: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation project, Indonesia
Shell has bought millions of carbon credits from this project in order to claim that fossil fuels are “carbon neutral”.
Nov 6, 2025
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Chris Lang
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Climate policy experts call for “excluding or phasing out offsets from carbon-pricing schemes and other climate policy processes”
A call to “act on the science”.
Oct 21, 2025
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Chris Lang
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“Many of the most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems”
The “most comprehensive review of evidence” finds that carbon offsets just don't work.
Oct 7, 2025
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Chris Lang
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A proposal for funding nature-based climate solutions without carbon markets
A recent paper highlights some of the problems with carbon offset projects and suggests an alternative funding mechanism.
Aug 27, 2025
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Chris Lang
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