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Crooked Carbon Business: Overview of documentation
Carbon trading has made the climate crisis worse.
 • Chris Lang
New Scientist: Carbon offsets are one of the five worst ideas of the 21st century
Along with Bitcoin, Social media, Alternative fuels, and Effective altruism.
 • Chris Lang
East African Carbon Company claims to be setting up carbon projects in Uganda. It is a subsidiary of Alpha MBM Investments, a Dubai-based…
The chairman of Alpha MBM Investments is Sheikh Mohammed Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum, a member of Dubai’s royal family.
 • Chris Lang
It’s all about oil: The Trump regime’s illegal military attack on Venezuela and kidnap of President Maduro
Deranged Trump Syndrome has gone to a dangerous new level.
 • Chris Lang
Call for a moratorium on AI datacentres in the US
More than 230 organisations have signed on to a letter to members of Congress.
 • Chris Lang
REDD myth no. 9: “Companies that buy carbon credits decarbonise faster than those that don’t”
“Carbon credits have become a comforting myth.”
 • Chris Lang
Malta’s €60 million worth of missing carbon credits
And a cover-up about the Swiss firm that failed to deliver the EU Allowances.
 • Chris Lang
UNFCCC offering carbon credits to “offset” flights to COP30
Greenhouse gas emissions from flying cannot be “offset” with carbon credits.
 • Chris Lang
Scientists at COP30: “Forest protection cannot be used as offsets”
“Standing forests cannot be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels."
 • Chris Lang
Indonesia’s carbon trading at COP30 slammed by climate justice activists
“The main goal should still be to reduce emissions at their sources.”
 • Chris Lang
Survival International: “Nature-based offset projects enable polluters to continue high emissions under the guise of carbon ‘neutrality’”
Two new briefings from Survival International on COP30.
 • Chris Lang
TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing
Following a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace France, Les Amis de la Terre France, and Notre Affaire à Tous, with the support of ClientEarth.
 • Chris Lang
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