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We cannot offset our way out of the climate crisis: A response to Norwegian economist Henrik Wiig

Posted on 17 January 202217 January 2022

By Chris Lang Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He has a refreshingly simple approach to the climate crisis. “Because burning fossil fuel is what’s causing global warming,” he writes on his website, “the central focus of my response is to avoid burning it!” He has reduced his own carbon…

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TRIDOM

TRIDOM – one of the largest trans-boundary wildlife areas in Africa faces critical new threats. Far from protesting, conservationists are looking to cash-in on the destruction

Posted on 14 January 202214 January 2022

TRIDOM faces major threats from mining and hydropower. WWF hopes to cash in by getting the mining companies to fund conservation.

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Massive tree planting schemes are not the answer to the biodiversity and climate crises

Posted on 12 January 202224 July 2022

Massive tree planting schemes are proposed as a solution to both the biodiversity and climate crises. They will solve neither.

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SavePlanetEarth

Some questions for Imran Ali, director of SavePlanetEarth

Posted on 11 January 202211 January 2022

Two weeks ago, REDD-Monitor sent SavePlanetEarth some questions.

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SavePlanetEarth

The strange story of SavePlanetEarth: Tree planting, carbon credits, blockchain, non-fungible tokens, cryptocurrency, and way more questions than answers

Posted on 10 January 202220 May 2022

SavePlanetEarth recently sold a carbon credit non-fungible token for almost US$70,000. What is this company, and who is behind it?

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