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Survival International: “Nature-based offset projects enable polluters to continue high emissions under the guise of carbon ‘neutrality’”
Two new briefings from Survival International on COP30.
 • Chris Lang
“The potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero”
A new paper in Nature Geoscience challenges whether ecosystem restoration can really help address the climate crisis.
 • Chris Lang
Terra Global Capital and Anew Climate: How a US$640 million carbon deal fell apart
This is a story about a US$640 million carbon deal gone wrong.
 • Chris Lang
A proposal for funding nature-based climate solutions without carbon markets
A recent paper highlights some of the problems with carbon offset projects and suggests an alternative funding mechanism.
 • 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
Brazil’s auction of oil and gas exploration blocks is “scientifically unsustainable, legally indefensible and morally unjustifiable”
More than 11 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent could be released.
 • Chris Lang
Tony Blair is a climate lobbyist for Big Tech and Big Polluters
How the media got the story completely wrong.
 • Chris Lang
“Continuing to stand behind the fallacy that carbon offsetting approaches will get us out of the climate crisis is now untenable”
Scientists advise the University of Exeter to ditch carbon offsets.
 • Chris Lang
Gabriel Labbate’s carbon market fallacies
The Global Team Leader of the UN-REDD programme at UNEP is promoting a false solution to the climate crisis.
 • Chris Lang
George Monbiot: Offsets are “exchanging a certainty of destruction against a possibility of salvation”
Forest offsets: “A huge tranche of those offsets are basically fraudulent.” Soil offsets: “This is absolute madness.”
 • Chris Lang
Voluntary carbon markets: “decades of misrepresentation, mismanagement, and fraud”
Public Citizen’s comment on CFTC’s draft guidance on carbon credits is spot on.
 • Chris Lang
The claim that “Carbon credits could generate US$82 billion” per year in Africa is based on a made in the USA fairy tale
Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, keeps telling us that Africa could earn US$82 billion a year from carbon…
 • Chris Lang
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