Malaysia is using forests to hide its greenhouse gas emissions in reports to the UNFCCC.
Tag: Carbon accounting
Australia’s avoided deforestation carbon credits are “hot air”
By Chris Lang A recent report by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Australia Institute found that “avoided deforestation” projects do not represent genuine emissions reductions. In most cases the areas were not under any threat of being cleared. Avoided deforestation projects generate about 20% of the Australian government’s main climate change policy.
Bloomberg Green: “How the Carbon Offset Market is Slowing the Fight Against Climate Change”
A commentary on Bloomberg’s reporting on how carbon offset markets help to delay action on the climate crisis.
The World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s latest hot air scam: Retroactive credits
The World Bank’s FCPF recently changed its rules to allow governments to sell REDD credits from before emission reductions programmes even started.
“You can’t value what you can’t measure.” Opening up the black box of carbon accounting
By Chris Lang “Offsets are an imaginary commodity created by deducting what you hope happens from what you guess would have happened.” That’s Dan Welch writing in the magazine Ethical Consumer in 2007.