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Stop carbon credit trading by the Danone Group in Aceh’s mangrove forests!
Letter to Livelihoods Fund, VERRA, and Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry from 72 organisations.
 • Chris Lang
Why Verra should not certify the Longido and Monduli Rangelands Carbon project in Tanzania
It's a massive carbon land grab based on Allan Savory's ideas, which have little or no scientific backing.
 • Chris Lang
The carbon land grab: A debate between GRAIN and the Land Matrix
We need better land governance, better standards, and more transparency says the Land Matrix. We need to “put an end to offsetting as a false solution…
 • Chris Lang
Confusion and alarm over ASC Impact’s carbon plantations in Gambella, Ethiopia
“The trees make us very worried.”
 • Chris Lang
Six Malagasy civil society organisations have written to Verra to complain about Tozzi Green’s carbon plantation land grab in Madagascar
Local communities have been protesting against the company’s operations for more than a decade.
 • Chris Lang
The carbon land grab in Kenya
SOMO investigates the expanding market for land-based carbon offset projects in Kenya.
 • Chris Lang
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
A “green rush” for carbon offsets is fuelling land grabs in the Global South
New report from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and TMG Research.
 • Chris Lang
Petition launched in solidarity with communities in Marudi district, Sarawak who are opposing Samling’s carbon credit land grab
Communities from 15 villages say the project infringes their Native Customary Rights.
 • Chris Lang
Carbon pirates: The fake country of the United States of Kailasa and its “perpetual” land grabs in Bolivia
How a fake country tried to set up land deals in Ecuador, Paraguay, Honduras, and Bolivia.
 • Chris Lang
Court upholds ban on Northern Rangelands Trust’s Blood Carbon operations in Isiolo, Kenya
Two of the organisation’s largest wildlife conservancies are unconstitutional.
 • Chris Lang
Indonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua
“There are too many soldiers.”
 • Chris Lang
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