Microsoft has announced that it “will be carbon negative by 2030”. Pachama is sources forest carbon offsets for Microsoft. How transparent is this partnership?
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The International Civil Avitation Organisation should reject the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility from its offsetting scheme (as well as rejecting all other offsets, of course)
By Chris Lang In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) announced that it would create a carbon offsetting scheme, thus creating the impression of doing something about the climate crisis, while allowing the aviation industry’s emissions from burning fossil fuels to increase massively.
“Aviation will try anything apart from leaving fossil fuels in the ground”
By Chris Lang For several years, REDD-Monitor has been raising the alarm about the aviation industry’s crazy plans to increase its greenhouse gas emissions massively using carbon offsets as a substitute for meaningful action to address the climate crisis.
Greta Thunberg: “We are not telling you to offset your emissions”
By Chris Lang Greta Thunberg’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week is important. This is the first time, as far as I’m aware, that Thunberg has said, in so many words, that carbon offsets are not a solution to the climate crisis.
How Dan Nepstad and the Earth Innovation Institute are using natural climate solutions and carbon offsets to greenwash the oil industry, while turning a blind eye to deforestation, corruption, and land rights conflicts
By Chris Lang In the latest issue of the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Jutta Kill writes that the COP 25 UN climate negotiations held in Madrid in December 2019, “will be remembered as the moment where the UN and conservation industry discourse and propaganda over REDD+ were replaced by the new forest conservation fad: Nature-Based-Solutions”.