Nov 9, 2022 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Carbon Markets, Offsets & REDD, Carbon Trading, Climate Justice, False Solutions, False Solutions to Climate Change, Featured, Greenwashing, REDD, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
The U.S. Is Presenting a Bad, Distracting Plan at U.N. Climate Talks Climate envoy John Kerry has proposed relying on carbon credits to fund renewable energy in developing countries. What that really means is that the U.S. doesn’t want to pay up. Source: The New...
Nov 8, 2022 | Actions / Protest, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Carbon Markets, Offsets & REDD, Climate Change, Climate Justice, False Solutions, False Solutions to Climate Change, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs, Voices from the Global South
“Carbon markets and offsets, geo-engineering, ‘Net Zero’ frameworks, ‘Nature-based solutions’, ‘ecosystem services’ do not cut emissions and are new forms of colonization.” International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change statement at COP27 Posted on 8...
Nov 2, 2022 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Carbon Markets, Offsets & REDD, False Solutions to Climate Change, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Land Grabs, Social Media News
PLANET GRAB: The Converging, Compounded Colonialisms of CONservation, Carbon Markets and Extractivism This excerpt from Cassandra’s forthcoming project, Climate Opium: How we are overdosing on false solutions to climate change, is dedicated to the 60,000 political...
Sep 8, 2022 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Carbon Markets, Offsets & REDD, Deforestation, False Solutions, False Solutions, False Solutions to Climate Change, Forests, Social Media News
Note: Our allies at REDD-Monitor published this article with a link to a recent program by late night talk show comedian John Oliver that takes on the ludicrous notion that corporations can achieve “net zero” emissions using carbon offsets. Below is this...
May 4, 2022 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Social Media News
Global Justice Ecology Project helped organize the first protest against REDD during a World Bank press conference announcing the Bank’s backing for REDD at the UNFCCC Climate Conference in Bali Indonesia in 2007. Indigenous Peoples and their organizations from...
Oct 6, 2021 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, False Solutions, Press Coverage, Social Media News
Environmental Justice and Human Rights Organizations Address Global Leaders Ahead of COP26: Carbon Offsets Don’t Stop Climate Change Amazon Watch 6 Oct 2021 Oakland, CA – Today, a broad coalition of over 170 NGOs, advocacy groups, and grassroots organizations...
