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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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US crypto Ponzi scheme ordered to pay US$83 million in restitution
The investment scam included Klima tokens in a “carbon offset bond”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Cheat Neutral
A 2007 video ridiculing carbon offsets, in which only the telephones haven’t aged well.
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