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Communities in Zimbabwe received nothing from carbon credit sales in C-Quest’s cookstove projects
A new report by Swedwatch and Green Governance Africa exposes “missing benefit sharing and poor community engagement”.
 • Chris Lang
KOKO Networks’ cookstove carbon credits in Kenya were “largely hot air”
“They would have taken everything that Kenya is entitled to.”
 • 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
The Kariba REDD project reveals a “deep structural flaw” in Verra’s carbon credit programme
Analysis by CarbonPlan shows that Verra’s proposed solution to Kariba’s “excess credits” simply does not work.
 • Chris Lang
Crooked Carbon Business: Hawk Mountain Improved Forest Management Project, USA
The Nature Conservancy’s fake carbon offsets.
 • Chris Lang
“Many of the most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems”
The “most comprehensive review of evidence” finds that carbon offsets just don't work.
 • Chris Lang
15.2 million fake carbon credits were sold from the Kariba REDD project according to Verra
Almost two years after suspending the project, Verra has completed its carbon accounting review. The quality control review is still ongoing.
 • Chris Lang
What has happened to Verra’s “investigation” into the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe?
19 months after starting its “investigation”, Verra remains silent.
 • 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
Carbon projects threaten a land grab of Maasai territory in Northern Tanzania
The Maasai International Solidarity Alliance is calling for a five-year moratorium on soil carbon projects.
 • Chris Lang
84% of carbon credits are junk
New peer-reviewed study finds that, “less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects constitute real emission reductions”.
 • Chris Lang
Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (Article 6.4) faces the same problems, and the same governance structure, as the Clean Development Mechanism.
 • Chris Lang
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