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Crooked Carbon Business: Marudi Forest Conservation and Restoration Project, Malaysia
Samling could profit from a carbon project that Indigenous Peoples oppose.
 • Chris Lang
Crooked Carbon Business: Ecomapuá Amazon REDD Project, Pará, Brazil
Ecomapuá Conservação is selling carbon credits from land that overlaps two Extractive Reserves, which are protected and publicly-owned.
 • Chris Lang
Crooked Carbon Business: Carbon offset projects in Portel, Brazil
Communities complain of being “left with nothing, not even the right to do what they’d done before”.
 • Chris Lang
Crooked Carbon Business: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation project, Indonesia
Shell has bought millions of carbon credits from this project in order to claim that fossil fuels are “carbon neutral”.
 • Chris Lang
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”.
 • 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.
 • 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.
 • Chris Lang
“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.
 • Chris Lang
Debunking Carbon Tanzania’s claims about the Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD project
Carbon Tanzania’s own documents undermine the company’s statements.
 • Chris Lang
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”.
 • Chris Lang
REDD myth no. 5: “Carbon offsets reduce emissions”
The reality is that to achieve real emissions reductions, carbon offsetting has to end.
 • Chris Lang
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.
 • Chris Lang
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