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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.
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Chris Lang
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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
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“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.
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Chris Lang
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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.
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Chris Lang
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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.”
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Chris Lang
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Voluntary carbon markets: “decades of misrepresentation, mismanagement, and fraud”
Public Citizen’s comment on CFTC’s draft guidance on carbon credits is spot on.
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Chris Lang
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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…
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Chris Lang
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Monoculture carbon plantations threaten biodiversity and have little benefit for the climate
"We risk reducing natural ecosystems to one metric - carbon"
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Chris Lang
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“A wolf in sheep’s clothing”: New report by Power Shift Africa on the Africa Carbon Markets Initiative
“Carbon credits are, essentially, pollution permits – an imaginary commodity created to benefit the wealthy, not the climate”
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Chris Lang
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Africa Carbon Markets Initiative: “A disincentive to progress in cutting down on emissions”
ACMI will help corporations to greenwash their pollution. It will not help address the climate crisis
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Chris Lang
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Press conference on March 15: No to Nature-Based Solutions!
Big Polluters are pushing a dangerous scam: Natural Climate Solutions, also known as Nature-Based Solutions.
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Chris Lang
A question for Jeffrey Kitingan, Sabah’s Deputy Chief Minister: Who owns Lionsgate, the company registered in the British Virgin Islands…
On 9 February 2022, the State Attorney General for Sabah put out a press statement in which she described the proposed two-million-hectare Nature…
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Chris Lang
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