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Stop carbon credit trading by the Danone Group in Aceh’s mangrove forests!
Letter to Livelihoods Fund, VERRA, and Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry from 72 organisations.
 • Chris Lang
Greenwashing destruction: APRIL’s Kampar Peninsula REDD project in Indonesia
Will Verra approve millions more fake carbon credits?
 • Chris Lang
“The dynamics of social-ecological systems pose a fundamental challenge to attributing changes in carbon stocks to actions taken by carbon…
“The challenge is not simply poor measurement, weak data, or the absence of improved methodologies.”
 • Chris Lang
New research shows that social-ecological complexity creates “high levels of uncertainty” and makes it “very difficult” to attribute changes…
Social-ecological complexity “makes any carbon additionality estimation fragile”.
 • Chris Lang
New Scientist: Carbon offsets are one of the five worst ideas of the 21st century
Along with Bitcoin, Social media, Alternative fuels, and Effective altruism.
 • Chris Lang
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
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