Carbon Markets, Offsets, and REDD
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets with no peer-reviewed science to back its claims.
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets generated from planting genetically engineered trees: A false solution combined with a techno-fix on top of another false solution Chris Lang's March 18, 2023 article in REDD-Monitor is a great overview of...
Survival International: Kenya’s Borana people denounce “skullduggery” over carbon credit scheme used by Netflix and Meta
Survival International Press Release: Kenya’s Borana people denounce “skullduggery” over carbon credit scheme used by Netflix and Meta We encourage you to read Survival International’s press release, published March 30, 2023 and included below (bolding added by...
Global Forest Coalition: IPCC report clearly shows there is no room for carbon offsets in climate change policy
Global Forest Coalition: IPCC report clearly shows there is no room for carbon offsets in climate change policy March 21, 2023 marks both the International Day of Forests and the release of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth synthesis...
Perspective Magazine Examines Falsehoods Behind Engineering Trees For Profit
Perspective Magazine Examines Falsehoods Behind Engineering Trees For Profit A March 15 2023 Perspective article by Wade Graham examines how the the tree-planting carbon offset market, which is worth billions and a key component of net-zero strategies, is based on...
New York Times: The first GE Trees have been planted in a U.S. Forest
New York Times: For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest Summary of Article: On Monday February 13, 2023, nearly 5,000 GE trees were planted in a U.S. Forest. The modified poplars, planted in Georgia on private land, were...
Earth Watch: Researcher Jutta Kill Debunks Carbon Offsets
Earth Watch: Researcher Jutta Kill Debunks Carbon Offsets (Feb 2, 2023) Jutta Kill was interviewed for the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Los Angeles, syndicated to millions of listeners across the country. Delving into a deeper discussion of carbon offset and its...
Earth Minute: Carbon Offset Realities vs. Claims (Thurs, Feb 2, 2023)
Earth Minute: Carbon Offset Realities vs. Claims A new investigation by The Guardian reveals that forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading provider, Verra, and used by big corporations such as Disney, Shell, Gucci and more, are largely worthless and could...
US proposes new mega-greenwash scheme at COP27 to avoid financial commitments
As the developing world’s demands for wealthy countries to deliver climate finance grow louder than ever at COP27, the carbon offsets Kerry and other U.S. officials are endorsing looks a lot like a distraction from the issue at hand.
COP27 False Solutions Roundly Rejected by International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change
“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...
PLANET GRAB: The Converging, Compounded Colonialisms of CONservation, Carbon Markets and Extractivism
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...