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African Agriculture Holdings Inc.: Oil companies, agribusiness, carbon credits, land grabs, water grabs, and tax havens aplenty
Alan Kessler, Frank Timis, and Koch Inc. More red flags than a golf course.
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The UK’s new climate envoy, Rachel Kyte, imagines carbon as “the currency of the 21st century”
What a £4 million donation to the Labour Party from the Cayman Islands gets you.
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Flowcarbon is refunding investors after failing to launch its carbon credit crypto token
The death of “Goddess Nature Tokens”.
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees
Four years after Benioff announced the trillion trees initiative, Bloomberg takes a look at how it's going.
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects
The investigation found that more than half of all REDD projects in the Amazon overlapped with public land.
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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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The Marajó REDD Project in Brazil: The company has become an “agent of violence”, promoting “true chaos within the territories”
“Abusive” contracts, land grabbing, seven legal cases, threats, and accusations
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More responses to the Science Based Targets initiative decision about including carbon offsets: “ineffective, harmful even, to the climate…
Two letters opposing carbon offsets and one from a carbon trading lobby organisation in favour.
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BBC Panorama documentary on the Kasigau REDD project in Kenya: Evictions, sexual harassment, and “dog training”
The Panorama documentary highlights the problems with this Wildlife Works REDD project.
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Kenya Human Rights Commission and SOMO respond to accusations of “questionable” research methods at the Kasigau REDD project
“Neither KHRC nor SOMO have ever paid people to provide information.”
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UN letter to the State Government of Sabah raises transparency and human rights concerns with the two million hectare Nature Conservation…
The State Government of Sabah's response ignores or dismisses the concerns.
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IKEA: The timber monster
Part I: Fast furniture, over-consumption, fascism, cost cutting, and tax avoidance.
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