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“Recipe for Greenwashing:” New report calls for a ban on international credits in South Korea’s Emissions Trading System
The report, published by Korean NGO Plan 1.5, finds that cookstove projects overestimate emissions reductions by a factor of more than 18.
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REDD myth no. 8: Putting a price on carbon makes polluters pay
It’s burning fossil fuels that is driving the climate crisis, not the lack of a price on carbon.
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Biodiversity credits: A “new form of green colonization plundering agricultural land for the benefit of financialization”
Via Campesina, Confédération Paysanne, and more than 270 civil society organisations and academics oppose biodiversity credits and offsets.
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The case of the missing carbon credits
The European Trading System suspended spot trading in carbon credits on 19 January 2011, after 475,000 EU carbon dioxide emissions allowances (EUAs…
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Forests, Carbon Markets and Hot Air: Why the Carbon Stored in Forests Should not be Traded
“If you wondered whether capitalism could ever produce the perfect weapon of its own destruction, try this heady mix of carbon fuels, the trade in…
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Yvo de Boer on carbon markets and REDD
On 6 April 2009 at a press briefing at the climate negotiations in Bonn, the executive secretary of the UNFCCC, Yvo de Boer, was asked a question about…
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Forest offsets remain excluded from ETS – for now
FERN’s EU Forest Watch reports on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme directive, which was adopted on 17 December 2008.
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Keep forests out of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Allowing carbon credits from forests to be traded under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) would create a enormous loophole, allowing EU…
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European Commission on forests and carbon markets: “in the end we have to have the market”
The EU outlined its plans for carbon markets in relation to forests at a press conference today (5 December 2008) in Poznan.
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Will forest offsets be used in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
Yesterday, 4 December 2008, the EU held a press conference, during which Reuters asked the question: “Will forest offsets be used within EU ETS?
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NGOs welcome European Commission decision to keep forests out of the carbon market
As REDD-Monitor reported last week, the European Commission has decided not to include forests in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
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European Commission says ‘no’ to forest credits in the ETS until after 2020, cites ‘market flooding’ and governance problems
The European Commission will tomorrow state that it is opposed to the inclusion of forest-based carbon credits in the ETS, in a wide-ranging…
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