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What has happened to Verra’s “investigation” into the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe?
19 months after starting its “investigation”, Verra remains silent.
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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.
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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.
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Chris Lang
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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”.
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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.
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BBC Panorama documentary on the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia: “More than half of the credits from that project are not real offsets”
Deforestation is increasing both in the REDD project and in the forests immediately next to it.
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Big Polluters are buying cheap, old, junk carbon offsets
A new study shows that 87% of offsets retired by companies like Shell, Delta Airlines, Chevron, and Eni carry a high risk of not providing emissions…
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Yet more evidence that Big Polluters are using junk offsets to avoid climate action
Corporate Accountability’s research reveals that companies’ emissions reductions and carbon neutral claims are dubious at best.
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The US Government’s carbon credit wish list
No legally binding guidelines, no enforcement mechanism, no regulation.
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Rainforest Foundation UK: “Gabon's rainforest carbon credits set a dangerous precedent that could worsen climate change”
Rainforest Foundation UK warns that Gabon’s 90 million carbon credits are “likely worthless”.
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Shift2Neutral in the Philippines: fraudulent, incompetent or both?
Shift2Neutral, a small Australia-based carbon trading company, has signed REDD-type deals in Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands…
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The Top 10: What’s wrong with REDD?
If you’re looking for a list of what’s wrong with REDD, then look no further.
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