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“The expansion of carbon markets suggests that the global economy continues to seek ways to manage the climate crisis without confronting…
“Indigenous critiques expose the limits of that approach.”
 • Chris Lang
First Article 6.4 carbon credits from cookstove project in war-torn Myanmar
The Ministry implementing the project is controlled by the military junta and is under EU sanctions.
 • Chris Lang
“Ghost carbon.” How the Livelihoods’ Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal overestimated how many carbon credits the project generated
Ghost carbon “has no benefit to people or the environment”.
 • Chris Lang
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
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