Crooked Carbon Business

Crooked Carbon Business: Overview of documentation

Carbon trading has made the climate crisis worse.

Jan 22 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Livelihoods’ Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal

Substandard wages for villagers. Carbon credits for corporations.

Jan 16 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Trees for Global Benefits in Uganda

Carbon credits for rich countries. Hunger for Ugandan farmers.

Jan 12 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: The UK Woodland Carbon Code

“Business as usual, with carbon credits thrown in.”

Dec 19, 2025 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Zambézia Integrated Landscape Management Programme, Mozambique

Deforestation has increased and only about 3% of originally estimated programme benefits have gone to communities, the private sector, district and…

Dec 11, 2025 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Marudi Forest Conservation and Restoration Project, Malaysia

Samling could profit from a carbon project that Indigenous Peoples oppose.

Dec 4, 2025 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project, Kenya

This week’s briefing by Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill looks at the Northern Kenya Grasslands Carbon Project in Kenya. The briefing can be downloaded…

Nov 28, 2025 • 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.

Nov 20, 2025 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Carbon offset projects in Portel, Brazil

Communities complain of being “left with nothing, not even the right to do what they’d done before”.

Nov 13, 2025 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation project, Indonesia

Shell has bought millions of carbon credits from this project in order to claim that fossil fuels are “carbon neutral”.

Nov 6, 2025 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Hawk Mountain Improved Forest Management Project, USA

The Nature Conservancy’s fake carbon offsets.

Oct 30, 2025 • Chris Lang

Crooked Carbon Business: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, Guyana

Far from solving the problems of REDD projects, jurisdictional REDD magnifies the problems.

Oct 23, 2025 • Chris Lang

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