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Investigative report on the Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD project in Tanzania: “This is a new form of colonialism”
"Very few Hadzabe understand the carbon project.”
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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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The US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap is a “bogus figure devised by US conservation corporations in collaboration with investment…
An unpublished letter to The Guardian.
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Chris Lang
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The biodiversity funding gap “is a dangerous way to approach debates about what is needed to transform societies to improve nature…
In an interview with Acción Ecológica, Andre Standing explains what’s wrong with the whole idea of a US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap.
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Chris Lang
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World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund are greenwashing the livestock industry
“It’s pretty obvious that the industry is using them, and whether willing or not, they’re letting themselves be used.”
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Chris Lang
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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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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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New report reveals that a majority of the board members of big conservation NGOs are linked to the finance industry
"The finance industry’s mission is profit – including from the financialisation of conservation"
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Chris Lang
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“Carbon offsets are bullshit”: Cory Doctorow
“The theory behind carbon offsets is that markets created the climate emergency, so markets will solve it.
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Chris Lang
How REDD greenwashes Glencore’s coal mining operations in Colombia
“I have had many dialogues with our relatives within the Amazonian forests that they call, the ‘living forests’.
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Chris Lang
The Nature Conservancy’s fake forest offsets
Last week, Bloomberg Green published a great article about The Nature Conservancy and how it became “a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets”.
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Chris Lang
Launched at COP25, IETA’s Markets for Natural Climate Solutions is greenwash for the oil industry
On 5 December 2019, at COP25 in Madrid, the International Emissions Trading Association held a side event to launch its Markets for Natural Climate…
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Chris Lang
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