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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.
Nov 5
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REDD myth no. 5: “Carbon offsets reduce emissions”
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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.
Aug 29
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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”
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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…
Aug 28
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Big Polluters are buying cheap, old, junk carbon offsets
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
Jul 22
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Chris Lang
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
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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.
Jul 16
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Chris Lang
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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
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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.
May 24
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Chris Lang
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BBC Panorama documentary: “A lot of these offsets that have been sold on the voluntary carbon market are essentially worthless”
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The Kariba REDD project, Zimbabwe: “The community is complaining because they are not seeing money trickle down”
The Guardian reports that money from carbon credit sales has not reached local communities.
Mar 18
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Chris Lang
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The Kariba REDD project, Zimbabwe: “The community is complaining because they are not seeing money trickle down”
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Survival International: “Verra’s ‘review’ of the Northern Rangelands Trust carbon offsetting project in Kenya is a shocking whitewash”
The Verra system is “fundamentally broken at all levels”
Feb 13
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Chris Lang
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Survival International: “Verra’s ‘review’ of the Northern Rangelands Trust carbon offsetting project in Kenya is a shocking whitewash”
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SavePlanetEarth launches Planetary Carbon Standard: “We are the pioneers in this side of the carbon credit industry”
Cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain, conflicts of interest, a fake baseline, and millions of fake carbon credits
Jan 11
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SavePlanetEarth launches Planetary Carbon Standard: “We are the pioneers in this side of the carbon credit industry”
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The Great Climate Scandal. Part 4: Matt Shea visits the Carbon Forward Conference 2023
“Is it true that 90% of Verra verified carbon credits are worthless?”
Nov 28, 2023
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The Great Climate Scandal. Part 4: Matt Shea visits the Carbon Forward Conference 2023
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Renat Heuberger has resigned as CEO of South Pole
Or how an “environmentalist” turned into a capitalist profiting from the climate crisis
Nov 16, 2023
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Chris Lang
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Renat Heuberger has resigned as CEO of South Pole
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“Problems under every stone we turned.” New report on REDD by the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project finds massive exaggerations of emissions…
“REDD+ is ill-suited to the generation of carbon credits for use as offsets”
Sep 15, 2023
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Chris Lang
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“Problems under every stone we turned.” New report on REDD by the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project finds massive exaggerations of emissions reductions
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