A £7 million carbon credit fraud trial has collapsed at Southwark Crown Court. In his closing observations, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith described the prosecution’s expert witness, Andrew Ager, as “not an expert of a suitable calibre”.
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NGOs oppose the oil industry’s Natural Climate Solutions and demand that Eni and Shell keep fossil fuels in the ground
Oil giants Eni and Shell have both recently announced plans to use trees to offset some of their ever increasing carbon emissions. Yesterday, NGOs put out a statement opposing the oil industry’s attempts to avoid its responsibility for climate breakdown. The statement is signed by six organisations (Friends of the Earth Mozambique and South Africa;…
Shell and Natural Climate Solutions: US$300 million for carbon offsets
Shell and Natural Climate Solutions: Monbiot needs to address the fact that NCS were co-opted by Big Polluters long before he got involved.
Green Finance Observatory: Carbon markets “will never work and should be abandoned”
Green Finance Observatory: New report notes that “Carbon markets have spectacularly failed to curb greenhouse gases for over a decade. . . “
Open letter by the Swift Foundation rejects REDD and carbon trading as false solutions to climate change
On 11 September 2018, shortly before the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, 17 foundations signed on to a “Joint Statement Supporting Forests, Rights, and Lands for Climate”.