Verra’s response to REDD-Monitor’s questions reveal little about Toucan, offsets, and blockchain, except that Verra is, legally speaking, carefully covering its arse.

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.

Gang rape, torture, and murder by park guards and soldiers at Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Kahuzi-Biega National Park: A new report by Minority Rights Group documents a campaign of appalling violence against Batwa Indigenous People.

Urgent call for international support to stop the Tanzanian government’s human rights violations against the Maasai: “You can either be silent and complicit, or take a stand for justice, dignity and human rights”
Human rights violations against the Maasai: Maasai Indigenous People have written to Tanzania’s donors to stop the plans for evictions and the human rights abuses in Ngorongoro and Loliondo in Tanzania.

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.