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What has happened to Verra’s “investigation” into the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe?
19 months after starting its “investigation”, Verra remains silent.
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Chris Lang
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TotalEnergies abandons its carbon plantations in the Republic of Congo
Foreign staff working on the Batéké Carbon Sink have left the country.
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Chris Lang
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Green oil? Suriname is planning to use Indigenous Peoples’ forests to greenwash TotalEnergies’ oil extraction
Indigenous Peoples’ organisations demand the REDD deal be stopped immediately.
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Chris Lang
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“Weaving the defence of the Kichwa territory in the face of the conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park”
Kichwa Indigenous communities demand that Big Polluters buying carbon credits "assume their responsibilities for having invested in a Park that…
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Chris Lang
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Suriname: Real oil and fake offsets
“A sign of how threadbare our systems for calculating carbon footprints are becoming.”
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Chris Lang
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TotalEnergies’ carbon plantations have “snatched” farmers’ land in the Republic of Congo
Farmers are losing their land and livelihoods to make way for TotalEnergies' greenwash.
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Chris Lang
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The Kichwa indigenous community wins an important legal victory against the exclusionary conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park…
In 2020, the Kichwa community of Puerto Franco and the Ethnic Council of the Kichwa Peoples of the Amazon (CEPKA) filed a lawsuit against the Peruvian…
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German court rules that TotalEnergies cannot claim that its heating oil is “CO₂ compensated”
In 2022, the German NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) brought a legal case against TotalEnergies Wärme & Kraftstoff Deutschland against the company’s…
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Chris Lang
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Logging companies in Papua New Guinea in breach of Court Order banning logging
Meanwhile James Marape, PNG's prime minister, threatens to lift proposed 2025 ban on round log exports
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Chris Lang
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South Pole and the Kariba REDD+ Project: An investigative report by Follow the Money exposes the rot at the heart of REDD
South Pole is one of the largest climate consulting firms in the world.
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Chris Lang
Democratic Republic of Congo threatens to release its carbon bomb
The Democratic Republic of Congo has announced that it will offer 27 oil exploration blocks and three gas blocks in an auction on 28 July 2022.
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Chris Lang
How Total’s fantasy of carbon neutral fossil fuel is helped by offsets from the Kariba REDD+ Project in Zimbabwe
On 29 September 2020, Total put out a press release stating that it had “delivered its first shipment of carbon neutral liquefied natural gas (LNG) to…
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