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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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Chris Lang
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US$180 million worth of carbon credits for sale to Big Polluters from the state of Pará, Brazil
Prices are backed by the governments of Norway, UK, and US.
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Chris Lang
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Amerindian Peoples Association highlights concerns about REDD in Guyana: “What looks good on paper isn’t always good in practice”
Selling carbon credits to an oil company, “raises contradictions within Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy”.
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Chris Lang
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Tullow Oil signs US$90 million REDD deal with Ghana
Another Big Polluter is funding REDD in order to legitimise continued extraction of fossil fuels.
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Chris Lang
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Amerindian Peoples Association forced to pull out of Architecture for REDD+ Transactions carbon credit appeal process
ART's complaint mechanism is not fair, independent, or transparent.
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Chris Lang
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“The sale by the Government of Guyana of forest-based carbon credits was fraudulent”
Janette Bulkan of the University of British Columbia writes that the government had no authority to sell REDD credits from titled village lands without…
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Chris Lang
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Amerindian Peoples Association files a formal complaint with Winrock International about the Guyana government’s US$750 million carbon…
In December 2022, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali announced that the US-based oil company Hess Corporation would buy US$750 million worth of carbon…
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Guyana’s carbon credits are based on “emissions reductions that never occurred” says Kevin Conrad of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations
According to Kevin Conrad, the inspiration for REDD came from a 2003 conversation on a beach in Wewak that he had with Michael Somare, Papua New…
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Chris Lang
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Brazilian state of Tocantins teams up with Mercuria Energy Trading to sell 200 million imaginary jurisdictional REDD carbon credits
The state of Tocantins in Brazil agreed a deal this week with Swiss company Mercuria Energy Trading to sell 200 million jurisdictional REDD carbon…
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