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Crooked Carbon Business: Overview of documentation
Carbon trading has made the climate crisis worse.
 • Chris Lang
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility: “A fund for wealthy people and Wall Street”
New report from The Corner House on TFFF.
 • Chris Lang
As COP29 edges towards a disastrous agreement on carbon markets, the Durban Group for Climate Justice reaffirms its opposition to carbon…
20 years on, the Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading remains as relevant as ever.
 • Chris Lang
Criticism of carbon offsets is nothing new
Revisiting some critiques from the 2000s.
 • Chris Lang
Papua New Guinea Environmental Alliance letter about the country’s proposed Carbon Market Regulation
In recent months, the Papua New Guinea Environmental Alliance has sent a series of letters to the Climate Change and Development Authority about the…
 • Chris Lang
Intermediaries are profiteering from the false solution of carbon trading
Back in 2011, the Munden Project put out a report titled, “REDD and Forest Carbon: Market-Based Critique and Recommendations”.
 • Chris Lang
We cannot offset our way out of the climate crisis: A response to Norwegian economist Henrik Wiig
Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
 • Chris Lang
New Greenpeace report exposes VW’s REDD carbon offset sham. The Katingan REDD project faces problems of additionality, permanence, leakage…
And (of course) an unverifiable, counterfactual baseline.
 • Chris Lang
Interview with Larry Lohmann, The Corner House: “Carbon markets do not need to be ‘fixed’. They need to be eliminated”
We have more than 20 years of evidence that carbon markets have failed to address the climate crisis.
 • Chris Lang
Green grabbing: Compensatory afforestation in India
In India, when an area of forest land is cleared, an equivalent area of land has to be afforested.
 • Chris Lang
REDDheads: Freeman Dyson and his CO₂ sucking tree plantations
Freeman Dyson is a theoretical physicist and mathematician.
 • Chris Lang
Larry Lohmann: “The problem is not ‘bad baselines’ but the concept of counterfactual baselines itself”
In June 2016, I wrote a post based on a paper published in the International Forestry Review titled, “The ‘virtual economy’ of REDD+ projects: does…
 • Chris Lang
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