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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: The Bezos Earth Fund, AI, and carbon offsets
A recent report by Grain highlights the conflicts of interest and promotion of carbon offsets in the Bezos Earth Fund.
 • Chris Lang
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: Featuring Steve Ballmer, Aspiration Partners, the LA Clippers, and Kawhi Leonard’s “no show…
The podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” obtained 3,487 pages of internal corporate documents from Aspiration.
 • Chris Lang
Microsoft won’t save the planet: “Finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today”
Ex-employees are highlighting how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.
 • Chris Lang
SwissX’s Soil Booster™ programme is one more ridiculously obvious climate scam
“Earn prosperitry” [sic]. “Earn proserity” [sic].
 • Chris Lang
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part II: Jeff Bezos’ megayacht
Complete with illegal teak decks imported from Myanmar.
 • Chris Lang
The UK’s new climate envoy, Rachel Kyte, imagines carbon as “the currency of the 21st century”
What a £4 million donation to the Labour Party from the Cayman Islands gets you.
 • Chris Lang
Flowcarbon is refunding investors after failing to launch its carbon credit crypto token
The death of “Goddess Nature Tokens”.
 • Chris Lang
I’ve stopped using Twitter. And you should too
The Musk and Trump conversation was the final straw for me.
 • Chris Lang
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees
Four years after Benioff announced the trillion trees initiative, Bloomberg takes a look at how it's going.
 • Chris Lang
GREEN+: A massive programme to financialise and trade the carbon in Latin America’s forests
Or, “The Carbon Credit Coup”.
 • Chris Lang
The return of the capitalist of chaos: Philippe Heilberg and a US$1 billion carbon deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and…
“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.
 • Chris Lang
Alki David receives cease and desist letter from Verra over SwissX’s coral REDD++ project in Antigua and Barbuda
Alki David, the “eccentric billionaire” moves into crypto carbon.
 • Chris Lang
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