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A “green rush” for carbon offsets is fuelling land grabs in the Global South
New report from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and TMG Research.
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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.
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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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REDD myth no. 6: “Carbon markets are climate finance”
The reality is that carbon markets are diverting money away from the Global South.
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African Agriculture Holdings Inc.: Oil companies, agribusiness, carbon credits, land grabs, water grabs, and tax havens aplenty
Alan Kessler, Frank Timis, and Koch Inc. More red flags than a golf course.
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From land grabbers to carbon cowboys
A new report by GRAIN looks at land grabbing for carbon projects.
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects
The investigation found that more than half of all REDD projects in the Amazon overlapped with public land.
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
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Carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis
During the first phase of the postponed Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (COP15), Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the…
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Nature is NOT a “solution”: World Rainforest Movement on nature-based dispossessions
A recent issue of the World Rainforest Movement is titled, “‘Nature-based Solutions’: Concealing a Massive Land Robbery”.
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Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?
By Chris Lang (REDD-Monitor) and Simon Counsell (Rainforest Foundation UK)
The Jari Amapá REDD project, Brazil: Greenwashing illegal logging, a pulp mill, and a 48-year-old land grab
The Jari Amapá REDD+ project covers an area of 65,980 hectares in the Jari Valley in the state of Amapá, Brazil.
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