Offsetting is not an option: Addressing the climate crisis means leaving fossil fuels underground. Carbon markets allow business, profits, and pollution as usual.
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Big Polluters, carbon offsetting, and REDD
Big Polluters, carbon offsetting, and REDD: Climate change denial and carbon offsetting have the same purpose – to allow Big Polluters to continue profiting from business as usual for as long as possible.
Toucan’s crypto layer on top of carbon offsets is expanding the market for toxic hot air
Toucan’s crypto layer on top of carbon offsets is doing nothing to address the climate crisis. In fact it is making it worse.
The UN’s Expert Group on net zero is not a “greenwashing watchdog”. It’s a toothless lapdog that will legitimise the net zero con
The UN’s Expert Group on net zero will produce a set of voluntary standards, with no mechanism to implement the standards. The Group itself is greenwash.
Conservationists claim that their aim to place thirty per cent of the planet in protected areas by 2030 is supported by science. It isn’t. What the science does and doesn’t say about 30×30
Simon Counsell on the science (or lack of it) behind the target of putting 30% of the planet in protected areas by 2030 (30×30).