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Danny Cullenward

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.
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Chris Lang
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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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Chris Lang
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The US Government’s carbon credit wish list
No legally binding guidelines, no enforcement mechanism, no regulation.
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Chris Lang
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Criticism of carbon offsets is nothing new
Revisiting some critiques from the 2000s
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Chris Lang
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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.
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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…
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Chris Lang
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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…
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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…
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Chris Lang
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