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Koalas and carbon credits in Australia
“We shouldn’t have to choose between saving native forests and stopping climate change.”
 • Chris Lang
Climate denialism, neoliberalism, fossil fuels, extractivism, AI, and carbon trading
Featuring Milton Friedman, Koch Industries, the Cato Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, Eric Schmidt, and Wildlife Works’ Jeremy Freund.
 • Chris Lang
EU weakens its 2040 climate goal with an international carbon credits loophole
“EU’s new Climate Law has opened the door to a dangerous expansion of the offsets industry.”
 • 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
The International Court of Justice says that countries are accountable for harm to the climate. What does this mean for carbon markets?
“This advisory opinion is a tool for climate justice.”
 • Chris Lang
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…
 • Chris Lang
Big Polluters, carbon offsetting, and REDD
Climate change denial and carbon offsetting have the same purpose – to allow Big Polluters to continue profiting from business as usual for as long as…
 • Chris Lang
The US Securities and Exchange Commission must not let Big Polluters get away with offsetting instead of sweeping structural change
On 21 March 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a meeting to discuss its proposed “climate disclosure rule”.
 • Chris Lang
Stop biodiversity offsets: Thousands sign letter to the European Commission
More than 9,000 people and 67 organisations have signed on to a letter urging the European Commission to drop its plans for biodiversity offsetting.
 • Chris Lang
Climate change is “unequivocal” says the IPCC. Could someone tell the UNFCCC?
This morning in Stockholm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first part of its fifth assessment report (AR5).
 • Chris Lang
Australia’s climate deal: better than nothing or worse than useless?
In a recent article in The Monthly, Guy Pearse questions why so many environmental organisations are cheering the Australian government’s draft Clean…
 • Chris Lang
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