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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: The Bezos Earth Fund, AI, and carbon offsets
A recent report by Grain highlights the conflicts of interest and promotion of carbon offsets in the Bezos Earth Fund.
 • Chris Lang
Editorial in Science magazine confirms the conflict of interest at the heart of carbon offsetting: Auditors paid by project developers
“Auditors are unlikely to stay in business if they disapprove credits at the high rates that research suggests would be appropriate today.”
 • Chris Lang
Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism gets off to a bad start with a Clean Development Mechanism cookstoves project in Myanmar
The first of many junk credits under Article 6.4.
 • Chris Lang
Southern Cardamom REDD project still threatens Indigenous Chong communities’ livelihoods in Cambodia
“Their project helps us very little.”
 • Chris Lang
Carbon Market Watch files a complaint about Verra’s “review” of the Southern Cardamom REDD project in Cambodia
The complaint has been submitted to the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Market.
 • Chris Lang
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approves three REDD methodologies. Risk of millions of credits that are “non-additional…
The Oeko-Institute has withdrawn from the ICVCM. Two members of the Expert Panel have resigned.
 • Chris Lang
How the Commodity Futures Trading Commission failed to regulate voluntary carbon credits
CFTC’s guidelines are woefully inadequate to regulate the “decades of misrepresentation, mismanagement, and fraud” in the voluntary carbon market.
 • Chris Lang
The UK’s new climate envoy, Rachel Kyte, imagines carbon as “the currency of the 21st century”
What a £4 million donation to the Labour Party from the Cayman Islands gets you.
 • Chris Lang
Surprise, surprise! Article 6 carbon credits face exactly the same problems as voluntary carbon credits
Offsets instead of emissions cuts, double counting, junk credits, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights remain unresolved problems.
 • Chris Lang
More responses to the Science Based Targets initiative decision about including carbon offsets: “ineffective, harmful even, to the climate…
Two letters opposing carbon offsets and one from a carbon trading lobby organisation in favour.
 • Chris Lang
Voluntary carbon markets: “decades of misrepresentation, mismanagement, and fraud”
Public Citizen’s comment on CFTC’s draft guidance on carbon credits is spot on.
 • Chris Lang
Africa Carbon Markets Initiative: “A disincentive to progress in cutting down on emissions”
ACMI will help corporations to greenwash their pollution. It will not help address the climate crisis
 • Chris Lang
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