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“Answered in the documents:” How Paul Rowett, co-founder of Toco, avoided answering REDD-Monitor’s questions
Toco, digital currency, carbon credits, fossil fuels, consumerism, and capitalism.
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“Article 6 is not about saving the planet. The COPs are not about climate change. This is about profit.” Interview with Dr. Tamra Gilbertson…
“Carbon markets fundamentally do not work, period.”
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George Monbiot: Offsets are “exchanging a certainty of destruction against a possibility of salvation”
Forest offsets: “A huge tranche of those offsets are basically fraudulent.” Soil offsets: “This is absolute madness.”
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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.
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IKEA: The timber monster
Part I: Fast furniture, over-consumption, fascism, cost cutting, and tax avoidance.
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Capitalism is driving us to disaster
Recently, I gave a presentation (via Zoom) for Stiftung Asienhaus. The title was “The False Promise of REDD+ in Southeast Asia”. I started the talk with…
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World Rainforest Movement: “REDD is racist”
The April 2016 issue of the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, titled “Racism in the Forests: A process of oppression at the service of capital…
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Why REDD+ is Dangerous (in its current form)
Last week, Financial Times journalist Fiona Harvey lamented that “Without a sturdy fundraising mechanism, REDD is worthless.” Her solution is to revive…
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Social Forum of the Americas rejects REDD. Oh, and capitalism
From 11-15 August 2010, the fourth Social Forum of the Americas took place in Asuncion, in Paraguay.
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Forests, Carbon Markets and Hot Air: Why the Carbon Stored in Forests Should not be Traded
“If you wondered whether capitalism could ever produce the perfect weapon of its own destruction, try this heady mix of carbon fuels, the trade in…
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Why did Conservation International invite Thomas Friedman to go to Brazil?
Thomas Friedman’s most recent column for the New York Times comes from Tapajós National Forest, Brazil.
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