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The Guanaré carbon project: How a eucalyptus monoculture in Uruguay is greenwashing Big Polluters
British American Tobacco, easyJet, Ernst & Young, Lavazza, and Nivea have all bought carbon credits from the Guanaré project.
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Woody biomass is a false climate solution and a massive threat to Indonesia’s forests
A new report highlights the threat to Indonesia’s forests from industrial biomass demand.
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World Bank-funded Zambézia Integration Landscape Management Programme in Mozambique has failed to stop deforestation. “Minimal benefits…
A new report by Public Integrity Center finds that ZILMP faces “significant challenges”: increasing deforestation, slow administrative processes, and…
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IKEA and Brazil: “This furniture industry relies on ecological degradation and profits from it”
Part V: Industrial tree plantations and environmental fines in Brazil.
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IKEA and Sweden: “It is clearcutting. That’s where the wood comes from”
Part IV: The impact of Sweden’s forestry industry on the country’s forests.
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“If no one had ever said, ‘Plant a trillion trees,’ I think we’d have been in a lot better space”
Says Thomas Crowther, AKA Mr. Trillion Trees himself
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Teak plantation investment scam company Green IS Group is now in liquidation. Will the police take action against the scammers?
The liquidator has received claims for £8.6 million from “investors” in the scam.
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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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Apple claims that its new Apple Watch is carbon neutral. It’s not
“It’s more stuff, and more stuff always leaves a mark.”
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Bill Gates, biomass burial, carbon credits, and fake news about 70 million acres of clearcuts
Biomass burial carbon credits anyone?
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EverGreen Solutions’ Christmas tree investment scam
Why couldn't the City of London Police see that this was a ridiculously obvious scam?
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How can Suzano, the world’s biggest eucalyptus pulp corporation, attract “green finance”?
Suzano calls its monoculture industrial tree plantations “forests” and practices exclusionary conservation on thousands of hectares of Indigenous…
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