By Chris Lang Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that by 2030 it would remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits. The company aims to do so by using negative emission technologies, including tree planting, soil carbon sequestration, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCs), and direct air capture.
Author: Chris Lang
Coronavirus notes #1: The magic money tree and universal basic income
By Chris Lang This post is the first in an occasional REDD-Monitor series collecting together some thoughts around the coronavirus crisis. Forests, deforestation and the climate crisis may seem distant problems when we’re all facing the threat of a deadly virus. But when the coronavirus crisis is back under control at some point in the…
Greenpeace rejects the one trillion trees campaign: “Treewashing the climate crisis with promises of large tree plantations”
By Chris Lang “Planting trees is now advocated by a wide range of stake-holders, often in the form of large-scale, monoculture tree plantations. In the current form, these will aggravate, not improve, the climate and biodiversity crises.” That’s from a new briefing by Greenpeace rejecting the one trillion trees campaign that was launched last month…
A company cloning Chloride Eastern Limited is running a recovery room scam. Along with a company cloning Cleantech Europe Escrow
By Chris Lang A REDD-Monitor reader, let’s call him Andrew, recently wrote asking for advice: I was contacted by a company called Chloride Eastern Ltd yesterday saying they could sell my VERs by re-formatting them to European Emissions at a cost of £1 per unit and this would then sell for about £21.93 per unit….
Copenhagen is using biomass from monoculture plantations in Brazil to become “carbon neutral”: Yet another false solution to the climate crisis
By Chris Lang Copenhagen plans to be the world’s first carbon neutral capital city by 2025. One of the city’s targets is to produce electricity from wind and “sustainable biomass”. Two weeks ago the ship IDC Pearl arrived at the Amager BIO4 power plant in Copenhagen carrying more than 32,000 tons of wood chips from…