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Climate policy experts call for “excluding or phasing out offsets from carbon-pricing schemes and other climate policy processes”
A call to “act on the science”.
 • Chris Lang
Bolivia’s US$1.2 billion forest carbon deal is a false solution
The deal is being set up by a company with zero experience in forest carbon in a country where wildfires tore through 10 million hectares in 2024.
 • Chris Lang
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.
 • Chris Lang
The US Government’s carbon credit wish list
No legally binding guidelines, no enforcement mechanism, no regulation.
 • Chris Lang
Criticism of carbon offsets is nothing new
Revisiting some critiques from the 2000s.
 • Chris Lang
Forest offsets go up in smoke in California’s “forever fire”
A key part of California’s cap-and-trade scheme relies on offsets from the state’s forests.
 • Chris Lang
Toucan’s crypto layer on top of carbon offsets is expanding the market for toxic hot air
Since October 2021, through a company called Toucan, more than 21 million carbon offsets have been retired on the Verra registry and “bridged” onto the…
 • Chris Lang
How Total’s fantasy of carbon neutral fossil fuel is helped by offsets from the Kariba REDD+ Project in Zimbabwe
On 29 September 2020, Total put out a press release stating that it had “delivered its first shipment of carbon neutral liquefied natural gas (LNG) to…
 • Chris Lang
How California’s cap and trade market undermines environmental justice
Last week, Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) and Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) gave a press conference about a new bill…
 • Chris Lang
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