Stop the evictions: The Government of Tanzania is yet again threatening to forcibly evict Maasai Indigenous people from their ancestral land in Ngorongoro District.
Author: Chris Lang
The Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project in Brazil is still selling carbon offsets despite failing to stop deforestation
Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project: Deforestation is slightly higher than the “without project” baseline. Yet carbon credits from the project are still on sale.
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.
We cannot offset our way out of the climate crisis: A response to Norwegian economist Henrik Wiig
By Chris Lang Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He has a refreshingly simple approach to the climate crisis. “Because burning fossil fuel is what’s causing global warming,” he writes on his website, “the central focus of my response is to avoid burning it!” He has reduced his own carbon…