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Crooked Carbon Business: Carbon offset projects in Portel, Brazil
Communities complain of being “left with nothing, not even the right to do what they’d done before”.
Nov 13
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Chris Lang
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Crooked Carbon Business: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation project, Indonesia
Shell has bought millions of carbon credits from this project in order to claim that fossil fuels are “carbon neutral”.
Nov 6
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Chris Lang
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Sigma Lithium claims that its mine in Brazil is “carbon neutral”. It bought REDD carbon credits from the Unitor REDD project, which is now…
Ricardo Stoppe Júnior, the man behind the Unitor REDD project, is accused of selling about US$34 million illegal REDD credits.
Nov 4
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Chris Lang
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The Kariba REDD project reveals a “deep structural flaw” in Verra’s carbon credit programme
Analysis by CarbonPlan shows that Verra’s proposed solution to Kariba’s “excess credits” simply does not work.
Nov 3
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Chris Lang
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“Many of the most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems”
The “most comprehensive review of evidence” finds that carbon offsets just don't work.
Oct 7
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Chris Lang
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Carbon Negative: A theatre performance that exposes climate colonialism
Next performance in Hamburg, 17 and 18 October 2025.
Oct 6
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Chris Lang
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Isangi REDD project: “Emissions reductions were likely short-lived if they occurred at all”
Verra has frozen the buffer pool carbon credits from the project.
Oct 3
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Chris Lang
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15.2 million fake carbon credits were sold from the Kariba REDD project according to Verra
Almost two years after suspending the project, Verra has completed its carbon accounting review. The quality control review is still ongoing.
Oct 2
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Chris Lang
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Forest cleared for Irrigation Dam 2 construction overlaps proposed Samkos REDD project in Cambodia
A series of dams is under construction or already built inside Wildlife Alliance’s Samkos and Southern Cardamom REDD projects.
Sep 12
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Chris Lang
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Terra Global Capital and Anew Climate: How a US$640 million carbon deal fell apart
This is a story about a US$640 million carbon deal gone wrong.
Sep 8
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Chris Lang
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German court rules that Apple Watch is not “carbon neutral”
Another legal victory for Deutsche Umwelthilfe against corporate greenwash.
Aug 26
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Chris Lang
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A “green rush” for carbon offsets is fuelling land grabs in the Global South
New report from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and TMG Research.
Aug 5
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Chris Lang
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