By Chris Lang During the first phase of the postponed Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (COP15), Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK, wrote an article explaining why carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis….
Author: Chris Lang
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The World Bank’s Carbon Warehouse and crypto company Chia are helping Big Polluters to buy carbon offsets and continue burning fossil fuels.
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Smurfit Kappa is destroying Indigenous Peoples’ land in Colombia while claiming to be “sustainable”. Instead of supporting Indigenous Peoples’ rights, WWF and FSC are helping to greenwash the destruction
Smurfit Kappa claims to be sustainable. But its plantations in Colombia are destroying Indigenous Peoples’ land.
Congo’s forest ‘emissions reductions programme’: Germany, Norway and UK taxpayers paying for nothing, as the World Bank-backed Forest Carbon Partnership Facility produces only ‘hot air’ emissions reductions
Congo’s forest ‘emissions reductions programme’: The World Bank is paying US$40 million mainly for logging and palm companies to do nothing whatsoever.