By Chris Lang In January 2020, Microsoft announced a new climate initiative. The company’s press release was headlined, “Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030”. It sounds great. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s climate initiative is greenwash, based on carbon removal, (a technology that Microsoft admits, “does not exist today”), and tree planting on a massive scale (which…
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Interview with Diego Saez-Gil, CEO of Pachama about his company’s work for Microsoft: “We can’t disclose details of the partnership”
Microsoft has announced that it “will be carbon negative by 2030”. Pachama is sources forest carbon offsets for Microsoft. How transparent is this partnership?
Government of Ecuador shuts down Fundación Pachamama for “affecting the public peace.”
Yesterday, officials from the Police Administration of Pinchincha closed down Fundación Pachamama’s office in Quito. They left a resolution from the Ministry of Environment stating that the organisation is dissolved.
REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru finally started paying communities a decade after the project started. “I’m still lacking money,” says one community member
By Chris Lang The Wall Street Journal recently reported from Peru about the “opaque network of traders, registries, raters, governments and investors that each can take a slice of the transactions” when carbon offsets are sold from REDD projects.
NIHT Inc’s misleading statements about the company’s REDD operations in Papua New Guinea
NIHT Inc gives misleading information on its website, stating that the company’s values “naturally align” with CCB Standards. NIHT Inc is not CCB certified.