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No to TFFF, Yes to Forest Rights
More than 200 organisations signed on to this statement opposing TFFF during COP30.
 • Chris Lang
No, the road through the Amazon rainforest in Belém was not built for COP30
A journey down a COP30 rabbit hole.
 • 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
Crooked Carbon Business: Ecomapuá Amazon REDD Project, Pará, Brazil
Ecomapuá Conservação is selling carbon credits from land that overlaps two Extractive Reserves, which are protected and publicly-owned.
 • Chris Lang
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility has raised just over US$2 billion. Almost entirely from Brazil and Indonesia
TFFF is “beleaguered by complications”.
 • 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
No to REDD! “Our territories are sacred, and we do not put a price on that which gives us life”
An invitation for organisations and social movements to sign on to this women’s declaration against REDD and carbon markets.
 • Chris Lang
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