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Terra Global Capital and Anew Climate: How a US$640 million carbon deal fell apart
This is a story about a US$640 million carbon deal gone wrong.
 • Chris Lang
“Offsets do not prevent or undo the harms caused by burning fossil fuels,” Energy Australia admits
Energy Australia’s statement is part of a settlement in a legal case about greenwashing brought by Parents for Climate.
 • Chris Lang
Biodiversity offsets and credits: “ecological impacts, land dispossession, loss of livelihoods and systematic violations of individual and…
A neoliberal market that commodifies nature and delays action on the loss of biodiversity globally. What’s not to like?
 • Chris Lang
Real Zero not Net Zero: “The only solution is to stop burning fossil fuels”
Real Zero Statement from the recently launched Lethal Humidity Global Council.
 • Chris Lang
Surprise, surprise! Article 6 carbon credits face exactly the same problems as voluntary carbon credits
Offsets instead of emissions cuts, double counting, junk credits, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights remain unresolved problems.
 • Chris Lang
NIHT accuses Four Corners investigation of bias
In February 2023, ABC broadcast an investigation into forest carbon projects in Papua New Guinea.
 • Chris Lang
The harsh reality of 30×30: The EU is keen to allow extractivism in the 30×30 target – but not Indigenous Peoples’ territories
Indigenous People in Montreal for the UN biodiversity meeting, COP15, are demanding that their rights be included in any agreement.
 • Chris Lang
Australia’s avoided deforestation carbon credits are “hot air”
A recent report by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Australia Institute found that “avoided deforestation” projects do not represent…
 • Chris Lang
The Carbon Cowboy: David Nilsson on 60 Minutes Australia
David Nilsson arrived in Peru two years ago and promised indigenous communities billions of dollars in return for signing over the rights to their…
 • Chris Lang
Indigenous communities in Peru condemn the further adventures of an Australian carbon cowboy
In April 2011, the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP) published the Declaration of Iquitos which opposed the…
 • Chris Lang
A “carbon cowboy”, internet censorship and REDD-Monitor
Recently, an Australian businessman, visited Peru and attempted to set up a REDD-type deal with the indigenous Matsés people.
 • Chris Lang
Shift2Neutral’s Brett Goldsworthy interviewed on Today Tonight Adelaide
On 28 March 2011, Australian TV station Today Tonight Adelaide broadcast a programme about Shift2Neutral and the company’s chairman Brett Goldsworthy.
 • Chris Lang
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