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UN University report warns against carbon credits from REDD, tree planting, and improved forest management
But the report stops short of recommending banning the trade in carbon temporarily stored in trees.
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Chris Lang
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Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American ecocide
A new documentary film by the Gecko Project. Coming soon.
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Deforestation of tropical forests hit a record high in 2024. Fire caused almost half the destruction
“The signal in these data is particularly frightening.”
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“Don’t use rainforests or any other carbon sink as a way to offset your reliance on fossil fuel.” Interview with Martin Simonneau, Cool…
“The unconditional payments are not results-based payments, but rights-based payments.”
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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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New report finds that Indonesia’s claim of 90% reduction of deforestation since 2016 is based on “cherry picking” and “exaggerates the…
While deforestation has fallen, serious threats remain.
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ORF documentary investigates Rimba Raya REDD project in Indonesia: “All empty promises”
Villagers have lost their livelihoods and parts of the forest are burning.
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Nike’s non-additional carbon credits from 2006 have found a new life. In ACR’s buffer pool
Old carbon credits never die.
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The Brazilian Amazon is burning. Yet again
A more dramatic illustration of the failure of REDD is difficult to imagine.
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Amazon rainforest: Deforestation, drought, and fire are affecting the monsoon and leading to a dangerous tipping point
REDD proponents continue to push the false solution of storing carbon in trees - and trading that carbon against continued emissions from burning fossil…
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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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“Worse than doing nothing”: Shell’s REDD offsets in Indonesia and Peru
Shell promises drivers in Denmark that they can become “CO₂ neutral” when they buy carbon offsets with the petrol on sale in Shell’s petrol stations.
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