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“Continuing to stand behind the fallacy that carbon offsetting approaches will get us out of the climate crisis is now untenable”
Scientists advise the University of Exeter to ditch carbon offsets.
Nov 29
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“Continuing to stand behind the fallacy that carbon offsetting approaches will get us out of the climate crisis is now untenable”
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As COP29 edges towards a disastrous agreement on carbon markets, the Durban Group for Climate Justice reaffirms its opposition to carbon…
20 years on, the Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading remains as relevant as ever.
Nov 20
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As COP29 edges towards a disastrous agreement on carbon markets, the Durban Group for Climate Justice reaffirms its opposition to carbon trading
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Real Zero not Net Zero: “The only solution is to stop burning fossil fuels”
Real Zero Statement from the recently launched Lethal Humidity Global Council.
Oct 8
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Real Zero not Net Zero: “The only solution is to stop burning fossil fuels”
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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.”
Sep 20
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George Monbiot: Offsets are “exchanging a certainty of destruction against a possibility of salvation”
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Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (Article 6.4) faces the same problems, and the same governance structure, as the Clean Development Mechanism.
Sep 12
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Chris Lang
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Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement
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Colonial conservation at work: Mangrove replanting in Sénégal for carbon offsets
The Senegalese villagers who did most of the work saw about 5% of the money.
Sep 3
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Chris Lang
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Colonial conservation at work: Mangrove replanting in Sénégal for carbon offsets
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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.
Aug 12
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Chris Lang
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees
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US crypto Ponzi scheme ordered to pay US$83 million in restitution
The investment scam included Klima tokens in a “carbon offset bond”.
Jul 12
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Chris Lang
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US crypto Ponzi scheme ordered to pay US$83 million in restitution
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80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility and transparency of carbon offsetting schemes
According to the National Environmental Services Survey.
Jul 9
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Chris Lang
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80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility and transparency of carbon offsetting schemes
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Science Based Targets initiative and carbon offsets: “This isn’t a science-based decision”
And the role of the Bezos Earth Fund.
Apr 16
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Chris Lang
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Science Based Targets initiative and carbon offsets: “This isn’t a science-based decision”
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IKEA and New Zealand: “It’s like another kind of colonisation”
Part VI: IKEA is buying land for pine carbon monocultures in Aotearoa.
Mar 15
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Chris Lang
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IKEA and New Zealand: “It’s like another kind of colonisation”
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Why we cannot rely on land-based CO₂ removal to address the climate and biodiversity crises
“Carbon dioxide removal into land and forests cannot legitimately be used to offset continuing fossil fuel emissions.”
Feb 15
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Chris Lang
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Why we cannot rely on land-based CO₂ removal to address the climate and biodiversity crises
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