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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
Blue Carbon LLC signed carbon deals covering 24.5 million hectares. Then the company disappeared
Blue Carbon’s mega-carbon trading deals were always greenwash.
 • 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
Cancelled artwork in Belém generates 57,765 Cultural Degrowth Credits
“An artwork to help the world breath better.”
 • Chris Lang
Greenwash! Asia Pulp and Paper’s new “sustainability” policy
APP’s new policy is “essentially a rerun of promises it made a decade ago but has largely failed to deliver on,” says Sergio Baffoni of Environmental…
 • Chris Lang
“Carbon markets are a failed model of climate finance that prioritises profits over people and delays over action”
A new report from Power Shift Africa.
 • Chris Lang
Indigenous delegation to London demands stronger action from UK government to protect forests and support Indigenous rights
“We are being excluded from COP30 negotiations, but it is our land that has been affected.”
 • Chris Lang
“Offsets do not prevent or undo the harms caused by burning fossil fuels,” Energy Australia admits
Energy Australia’s statement is part of a settlement in a legal case about greenwashing brought by Parents for Climate.
 • Chris Lang
“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.
 • Chris Lang
The return of the carbon bomb: Democratic Republic of Congo opens 52 oil exploration blocks in the Cuvette Centrale peatlands
The Notre Terre Sans Pétrole coalition is demanding an immediate halt to the process.
 • Chris Lang
“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.”
 • Chris Lang
Guyana’s Amerindian Peoples Association at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: “We were not properly consulted on how our forests…
The Petrostate of Guyana does not respect the right to free, prior and informed consent.
 • Chris Lang
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