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The collapse of KOKO Networks. A cookstoves project in Kenya that relied on compliance carbon trading
When the Kenyan government refused to issue a letter of authorisation KOKO collapsed.
 • Chris Lang
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.
 • Chris Lang
East African Carbon Company claims to be setting up carbon projects in Uganda. It is a subsidiary of Alpha MBM Investments, a Dubai-based…
The chairman of Alpha MBM Investments is Sheikh Mohammed Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum, a member of Dubai’s royal family.
 • Chris Lang
Survival International: “Nature-based offset projects enable polluters to continue high emissions under the guise of carbon ‘neutrality’”
Two new briefings from Survival International on COP30.
 • Chris Lang
New carbon credit regulation in the Philippines is “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”
The Peoples Rising for Climate Justice - Philippines slammed the new regulation.
 • Chris Lang
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”.
 • Chris Lang
“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.
 • Chris Lang
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
“The European Commission chose to cook the books instead of protecting the climate.”
 • Chris Lang
Protecting communities from carbon markets
A recent report from ActionAid USA highlights the dangers of carbon markets.
 • Chris Lang
The International Court of Justice says that countries are accountable for harm to the climate. What does this mean for carbon markets?
“This advisory opinion is a tool for climate justice.”
 • Chris Lang
A “green rush” for carbon offsets is fuelling land grabs in the Global South
New report from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and TMG Research.
 • Chris Lang
Open letter opposing international carbon credits in EU climate targets
The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change also opposes the use of international carbon credits.
 • Chris Lang
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