By Simon Counsell Summary So-called ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ (OECMs) are included in the proposed global target to increase protected areas to thirty per cent of the planet by 2030 (‘30×30’). They can notionally involve designations such as indigenous territories and community conserved lands in order to overcome the well-documented human rights problems caused…
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Carbon offsets are a license to pollute
By Chris Lang During the COP26 UN climate meeting in Glasgow, Greta Thunberg tweeted out a “Greenwash Alert”. She pointed out that the fossil fuel industry and the banks are “among the biggest climate villains”. Shell, BP, and Standard Chartered were in Glasgow “trying to scale up offseting and give polluters a free pass to…
Companies buy older and cheaper carbon offsets. But that’s just Gresham’s Law in action: “Bad money drives out good”
Companies buy older and cheaper carbon offsets: Gresham’s Law explains how companies tend to buy the worst possible carbon offsets.
“Carbon offsets are bullshit”: Cory Doctorow
“Carbon offsets are bullshit.” Cory Doctorow explains why carbon offsets will not help to address the climate crisis and will actually make things worse.
Carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis
By Chris Lang During the first phase of the postponed Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (COP15), Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK, wrote an article explaining why carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis….