May 18, 2021 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Featured, REDD, Social Media News
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD Project: EasyJet’s phantom carbon credits are generated by logging the forest By Chris Lang 14 May 2021 “It’s a scam. Neither planting trees nor avoiding deforestation will make a flight carbon neutral.” That’s Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho,...
Apr 23, 2021 | Brazil, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Climate Justice, Deforestation, False Solutions, Featured, Forests, Latin America, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
The Summits of the Destroyers-in-Chief: We must resist the corporate takeover of the UN’s food, biodiversity and climate agenda 22 Apr, 2021 By Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition The US is back. Back in the Paris Agreement, and back to faithfully promoting the...
Feb 25, 2021 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Featured, Forests, Social Media News
Chasing Carbon Unicorns: The deception of carbon markets and “net zero” Friends of the Earth International 22 February 2021 Powerful actors are using “net zero” pledges to hide their climate inaction. Stopping the climate crisis requires us to stop burning fossil...
Feb 19, 2021 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Protests & Resistance, REDD, Social Media News
The World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s latest hot air scam: Retroactive credits Originally posted on REDD-Monitor by Chris Lang 18 February 2021 The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility recently changed its rules to allow governments to sell...
Feb 9, 2021 | Bioenergy, Brazil, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Climate Justice, Concerned Photography, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Forests, Geoengineering, GMOs, Indigenous Peoples, Protests & Resistance, Quarterly Updates, Rainforest, Social Media News
Global Justice Ecology Project February Update Please support our work for social & ecological justice with a secure gift today! Photo of the Month World Social Forum Celebrates 20 Years Since the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil twenty...
Jan 22, 2021 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Rainforest, REDD, Social Media News
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project was part of the group that co-founded the Durban Group in 2004. In his piece linked below, Chris Lang of REDD-Monitor who was present at the meeting, explains, “In October 2004, about 20 climate and environmental activists...