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Verra’s response to REDD-Monitor’s questions about Toucan’s transferring of retired carbon offsets to the blockchain: “An entity that retires a VCU and then creates a token is not, strictly speaking, tokenizing a VCU, but is instead creating an instrument that exists outside of Verra’s ecosystem”

Posted on 12 April 202212 April 2022

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.

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Toucan's crypto layer

Toucan’s crypto layer on top of carbon offsets is expanding the market for toxic hot air

Posted on 11 April 202212 April 2022

Toucan’s crypto layer on top of carbon offsets is doing nothing to address the climate crisis. In fact it is making it worse.

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Kahuzi-Biega National Park

Gang rape, torture, and murder by park guards and soldiers at Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted on 7 April 20227 April 2022

Kahuzi-Biega National Park: A new report by Minority Rights Group documents a campaign of appalling violence against Batwa Indigenous People.

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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”

Posted on 5 April 20225 April 2022

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.

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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

Posted on 4 April 20224 April 2022

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.

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