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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy’s fake forest offsets

Posted on 14 December 202015 December 2020

By Chris Lang Last week, Bloomberg Green published a great article about The Nature Conservancy and how it became “a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets”.

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Regulatory failure: The strange case of a French company called Carbon Market

Posted on 7 May 202022 May 2020

By Chris Lang Carbon Market is a timber company, registered in France in May 2009. The company imports timber from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon.

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Climate tipping point? The Amazon faces intense droughts and fires again this year

Posted on 19 July 201615 February 2019

According to NASA, the Amazon is drier at the start of this year’s dry season than any year since 2002. The reason is reduced rainfall during the wet season because of El Niño. The result could be intense fires in the Amazon later this year.

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The Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon. Or, why we can’t rely on forests to solve climate change

Posted on 19 March 201520 February 2019

A paper published this week in Nature concludes that the Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon. In the past decade, the carbon absorbed by the Amazon each year has decreased by about one-third.

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What came out of Lima COP20 on REDD? Part 1: “REDDlock”

Posted on 9 December 201412 September 2016

“We are deeply disappointed at the lack of meaningful progress on REDD+ here in Peru, one of the countries with the most forests in the world, with many Indigenous Peoples. We expected at least SOME progress, but there has been no substantial outcome on REDD+.”

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