Peru’s new REDD deal involves no commitments of new money from Norway, Germany, the UK, or the USA.
Category: Germany
Plant-for-the-Planet: dubious organisational structure, controversial scientific foundation, a lack of professional support, and the failure to verify tree-planting reports
Felix Finkbeiner, the 23-year-old tree-planting wunderkind, and his organisation Plant-for-the-Planet are in the news again.
Some questions for Frithjof Finkbeiner, founder of Plant-for-the-Planet
REDD-Monitor’s questions for Frithjof and Felix Finkbeiner about Plant-for-the-Planet’s claims about its tree planting operations in Mexico.
Plant for the Planet: Felix Finkbeiner’s fake forests
A recent article in the Zeit questions the validity of Plant for the Planet’s tree planting operation in Mexico.
New Greenpeace report exposes VW’s REDD carbon offset sham. The Katingan REDD project faces problems of additionality, permanence, leakage, land conflicts, and (of course) an unverifiable, counterfactual baseline
By Chris Lang A new report by Greenpeace investigates VW’s “climate neutral” production claims for its new ID series of electric cars. Greenpeace concludes that VW has done too little to reduce its CO2 emissions, and that the carbon credits bought from the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia are neither additional nor permanent. VW’s claims…