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.
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.
The Green Climate Fund must reject Arbaro’s industrial tree plantations
By Chris Lang At its 25th board meeting from 10-12 March 2020, the Green Climate Fund is due to decide whether to provide US$25 million to the Arbaro Fund. The money, together with a further US$175 million co-financing largely from other public sources, would be used to establish 75,000 hectares of commercial tree plantations in…