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Forest offsets

Forest offsets go up in smoke in California’s “forever fire”

Posted on 8 August 20228 August 2022

Forest offsets in California’s buffer pool are not enough to deal with the risks of wildfire and disease – especially as the climate crisis intensifies.

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More than 70 California environmental justice groups oppose Mary Nichols to head the US Environmental Protection Agency

Posted on 4 December 20204 December 2020

By Chris Lang Mary Nichols, the chair of the California Air Resources Board since 2007, is a leading contender to head the Environmental Protection Agency under the new US President-Elect Joe Biden. “If they offered it, I would take it,” Nichols told the Associated Press.

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California approves the Tropical Forest Standard. Good news for the fossil fuel industry. Bad news for the climate crisis

Posted on 20 September 201918 October 2019

On 19 September 2019, the California Air Resources Board voted 7-4 to approve the Tropical Forest Standard. CARB is determined to convince us that this is not an approval of REDD offsets in California’s cap-and-trade scheme. In a presentation about the Tropical Forest Standard CARB staff point out that, “Endorsement of the Standard Does Not…

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Carbon Confidential: A California Crime Caper

Posted on 3 September 201918 October 2019

California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) is set to consider an updated Tropical Forest Standard at a public meeting on 19 September 2019. CARB invited comments. Larry Lohmann of The Corner House sent in a comment that explores the “bottomless cesspit of intellectual corruption” that is today’s world of climate change politics:

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Letter from California senator Bob Wieckowski: “I write to express our strong opposition to the Air Resources Board’s Tropical Forest Standard”

Posted on 22 August 2019

“The TFS [Tropical Forest Standard] approach risks producing a landslide of false credits due to the challenges with ensuring credited reductions are permanent, non-leaking, and additional, and the inherent possibility that other jurisdictions buying and selling TFS credits will interpret the TFS’ protections liberally. California should not lend its name to these efforts nor commit…

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