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“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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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NIHT accuses Four Corners investigation of bias
In February 2023, ABC broadcast an investigation into forest carbon projects in Papua New Guinea.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Reply from AusAID about the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership
On 24 February 2011, Yayasan Petak Danum, (Water Land Foundation, an NGO in Central Kalimantan), wrote to the Australian Delegation that was then…
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