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Film review: The Invisible Doctrine is a brilliant analysis of neoliberalism, ruined by the use of AI generated images
Why George, why?
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Chris Lang
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“Answered in the documents:” How Paul Rowett, co-founder of Toco, avoided answering REDD-Monitor’s questions
Toco, digital currency, carbon credits, fossil fuels, consumerism, and capitalism.
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Chris Lang
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Tony Blair is a climate lobbyist for Big Tech and Big Polluters
How the media got the story completely wrong.
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Chris Lang
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REDD myth no. 6: “Carbon markets are climate finance”
The reality is that carbon markets are diverting money away from the Global South.
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Chris Lang
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George Monbiot: Offsets are “exchanging a certainty of destruction against a possibility of salvation”
Forest offsets: “A huge tranche of those offsets are basically fraudulent.” Soil offsets: “This is absolute madness.”
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Chris Lang
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I’ve stopped using Twitter. And you should too
The Musk and Trump conversation was the final straw for me.
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Chris Lang
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Natural Climate Questions: Can trees planted in Uganda really offset greenhouse gas emissions from Max Burgers’ fast food chain in Sweden?
Trees suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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Chris Lang
The failure of the UN Climate Action Summit. Helped by the distraction of Natural Climate Solutions
This week saw the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
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Is the new Natural Climate Solutions campaign a distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground?
Earlier this week, an international group of more than 20 campaigners wrote a letter to The Guardian in support of natural climate solutions.
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Chris Lang
Banking Nature. Or cashing in on the destruction of nature
A new documentary film, Banking Nature looks at the Brave New World of species banking, biodiversity offsets, wetlands credits, ecosystem markets, and…
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Chris Lang
Hot air and carbon crooks: The reality of carbon trading
Yesterday, “Varm luft for milliarder”, a documentary by Tom Heinemann, was broadcast on Danish television.
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Chris Lang
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Clean development mechanism: zombie projects, zero emissions reductions and almost worthless carbon credits
Last week, the clean development mechanism registered its 7,000th project.
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