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Bolivia’s US$1.2 billion forest carbon deal is a false solution
The deal is being set up by a company with zero experience in forest carbon in a country where wildfires tore through 10 million hectares in 2024.
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Microsoft’s disastrous US$200 million carbon offset deal in Brazil
“CO₂ uptake by trees should not be used to offset fossil fuel emissions.”
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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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REDD myth no. 5: “Carbon offsets reduce emissions”
The reality is that to achieve real emissions reductions, carbon offsetting has to end.
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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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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
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“Problems under every stone we turned.” New report on REDD by the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project finds massive exaggerations of emissions…
“REDD+ is ill-suited to the generation of carbon credits for use as offsets.”
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Survival International’s new report exposes serious problems with the Northern Rangelands Trust’s soil carbon project on Indigenous land in…
Report marks the launch of Survival International’s “Blood Carbon” campaign.
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“Worse than doing nothing”: Shell’s REDD offsets in Indonesia and Peru
Shell promises drivers in Denmark that they can become “CO₂ neutral” when they buy carbon offsets with the petrol on sale in Shell’s petrol stations.
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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.
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Nine reasons why REDD is a false solution: Friends of the Earth International
“REDD is a risky and false solution to climate change, both in theory and in practice,” argues a new report by Friends of the Earth International.
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Why REDD+ is Dangerous (in its current form)
Last week, Financial Times journalist Fiona Harvey lamented that “Without a sturdy fundraising mechanism, REDD is worthless.” Her solution is to revive…
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