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Microsoft won’t save the planet: “Finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today”
Ex-employees are highlighting how Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry is exacerbating the climate crisis.
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Chris Lang
Climeworks: The carbon capture company that emits more than it captures
No surprises. Direct air capture was designed to delay the end of fossil fuels.
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Chris Lang
Tony Blair is a climate lobbyist for Big Tech and Big Polluters
How the media got the story completely wrong.
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Chris Lang
Aspiration Partners, a company that signed a deal to sell 6.75 million carbon credits to Meta, has filed for bankruptcy
Aspiration’s co-founder Joe Sanberg has been arrested. Board member and investor, Ibrahim AlHusseini, has signed a plea agreement.
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Chris Lang
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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Chris Lang
The unravelling of Aspiration and the arrest of Ibrahim AlHusseini. “Clean rich is the new filthy rich”
An investor allegedly lost more than US$150 million. “AlHusseini personally received more than $12 million in ill-gotten gains,” according to court…
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Chris Lang
Big Tech’s false solution to ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions? You guessed it, carbon credits
“It’s problematic to trade forest carbon for fossil fuel emissions.”
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Chris Lang
From land grabbers to carbon cowboys
A new report by GRAIN looks at land grabbing for carbon projects.
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Chris Lang
Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits
No provable additionality. And double counting.
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Chris Lang
Running Tide dumped woodchips into the sea off the coast of Iceland to generate 25,000 unverified carbon removal credits. The company has…
How not to do carbon dioxide removal.
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Chris Lang
Microsoft’s climate bullshit
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that by 2030 it would remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits.
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Chris Lang
How Microsoft avoids answering questions about its “carbon negative” partnership with Pachama: “We’d like to politely decline to respond on…
In January 2020, Microsoft announced a new climate initiative.
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Chris Lang
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