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Crooked Carbon Business: The UK Woodland Carbon Code
“Business as usual, with carbon credits thrown in.”
 • Chris Lang
Evertreen: Non-transparent tree planting and dodgy carbon offsets
I know, I know. All carbon offsets are dodgy.
 • Chris Lang
REDD myth no. 9: “Companies that buy carbon credits decarbonise faster than those that don’t”
“Carbon credits have become a comforting myth.”
 • Chris Lang
Malta’s €60 million worth of missing carbon credits
And a cover-up about the Swiss firm that failed to deliver the EU Allowances.
 • Chris Lang
UNFCCC offering carbon credits to “offset” flights to COP30
Greenhouse gas emissions from flying cannot be “offset” with carbon credits.
 • Chris Lang
Scientists at COP30: “Forest protection cannot be used as offsets”
“Standing forests cannot be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels."
 • Chris Lang
Land Gap Report 2025: “Countries are doubling down on reliance on the land sector for carbon removal”
Forest policymaking needs to “confront the structural economic barriers that entrench extractive growth”.
 • Chris Lang
“Biofuels and carbon markets do not raise climate ambition”
CLARA members respond to new initiatives promoting biofuels and carbon markets, and to the launch of the TFFF.
 • Chris Lang
Indonesia’s carbon trading at COP30 slammed by climate justice activists
“The main goal should still be to reduce emissions at their sources.”
 • 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
Survival International: “Nature-based offset projects enable polluters to continue high emissions under the guise of carbon ‘neutrality’”
Two new briefings from Survival International on COP30.
 • Chris Lang
Latin American and Caribbean social organisations denounce “Carbon colonialism and the exacerbation of inequality based on racism and…
55 organisations have signed the statement rejecting carbon markets.
 • Chris Lang
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