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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.
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Chris Lang
“Recipe for Greenwashing:” New report calls for a ban on international credits in South Korea’s Emissions Trading System
The report, published by Korean NGO Plan 1.5, finds that cookstove projects overestimate emissions reductions by a factor of more than 18.
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“We must say NO! to this Green Economy regime.” Indigenous Environmental Network calls for a moratorium on all false solutions to the…
IEN's call for a permanent moratorium on carbon markets and REDD came at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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Some questions for Andrew Gilmour, CEO of Laconic Infrastructure Partners Inc.
About Bolivia’s US$1.2 billion forest carbon false solution.
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Bolivia’s US$1.2 billion forest carbon deal is a false solution
The deal is being set up by a company with zero experience in forest carbon in a country where wildfires tore through 10 million hectares in 2024.
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Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism gets off to a bad start with a Clean Development Mechanism cookstoves project in Myanmar
The first of many junk credits under Article 6.4.
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UN experts expressed “serious concerns” about the gavelling through of carbon trading rules at COP29 in Baku
“After 30 years, evidence that carbon markets are contributing to mitigation or helping mobilize finance is just not there.”
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84% of carbon credits are junk
New peer-reviewed study finds that, “less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects constitute real emission reductions”.
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COP29’s “Get out of jail free” card: Article 6 carbon trading mechanisms
“Countries have little incentive not to game the system.”
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As COP29 edges towards a disastrous agreement on carbon markets, the Durban Group for Climate Justice reaffirms its opposition to carbon…
20 years on, the Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading remains as relevant as ever.
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Green oil? Suriname is planning to use Indigenous Peoples’ forests to greenwash TotalEnergies’ oil extraction
Indigenous Peoples’ organisations demand the REDD deal be stopped immediately.
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Gabriel Labbate’s carbon market fallacies
The Global Team Leader of the UN-REDD programme at UNEP is promoting a false solution to the climate crisis.
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