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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”.
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Chris Lang
What has happened to Verra’s “investigation” into the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe?
19 months after starting its “investigation”, Verra remains silent.
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“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 are stuck like chickens in a cage.” How an Indigenous Bunong woman describes living in the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia
The project has serious impacts on the livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples, while failing to stop deforestation.
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Debunking Carbon Tanzania’s claims about the Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD project
Carbon Tanzania’s own documents undermine the company’s statements.
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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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REDD myth no. 5: “Carbon offsets reduce emissions”
The reality is that to achieve real emissions reductions, carbon offsetting has to end.
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BBC Panorama documentary on the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia: “More than half of the credits from that project are not real offsets”
Deforestation is increasing both in the REDD project and in the forests immediately next to it.
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Big Polluters are buying cheap, old, junk carbon offsets
A new study shows that 87% of offsets retired by companies like Shell, Delta Airlines, Chevron, and Eni carry a high risk of not providing emissions…
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
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Finite Carbon is majority owned by BP, one of the world’s biggest polluters. It sells carbon offsets from trees that are not in danger
New investigation from SourceMaterial and Floodlight reported in The Guardian.
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BBC Panorama documentary: “A lot of these offsets that have been sold on the voluntary carbon market are essentially worthless”
A recent Panorama documentary exposes the systemic problems with REDD.
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