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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.
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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”
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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
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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?”
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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
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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”
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REDD carbon offsets don’t address the climate crisis and are linked to allegations of human rights abuse
A recent study found most of the REDD projects looked at did not reduce deforestation
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is calling for whistleblowers to report “violations connected to fraud or manipulation in the…
It will be interesting to see how CFTC attempts to regulate a scam
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The Luangwa Community Forests Project, Zambia: “The project shouldn’t issue any credits because it’s not really reducing deforestation”
Italian TV channel Rai 3 travelled to Zambia to investigate where Eni is buying its carbon offsets
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South Pole and the Kariba REDD+ Project: An investigative report by Follow the Money exposes the rot at the heart of REDD
South Pole is one of the largest climate consulting firms in the world. The company claims to be “helping to drive the transformation from a…
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After 11 years, many villagers wonder what they get from Wildlife Works Carbon’s Mai Ndombe REDD project
Jonas Gerding a journalist with the German newspaper Die Zeit recently visited Mai Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project in Brazil is still selling carbon offsets despite failing to stop deforestation
The Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project covers an area of 95,300 hectares in the state of Rondônia in Brazil. The project area is an extractive…
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