Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project: Deforestation is slightly higher than the “without project” baseline. Yet carbon credits from the project are still on sale.
Tag: Carbon Offsets
We cannot offset our way out of the climate crisis: A response to Norwegian economist Henrik Wiig
By Chris Lang Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He has a refreshingly simple approach to the climate crisis. “Because burning fossil fuel is what’s causing global warming,” he writes on his website, “the central focus of my response is to avoid burning it!” He has reduced his own carbon…
Massive tree planting schemes are not the answer to the biodiversity and climate crises
Massive tree planting schemes are proposed as a solution to both the biodiversity and climate crises. They will solve neither.
Norway’s forest and climate policy: “Heisann og hoppsann og fallerallera”
Norway’s forest and climate policy is useful for politicians to avoid difficult decisions, argue Tor A. Benjaminsen and Hanne Svarstad. But it will not address the climate crisis.
Suzano and COP26: The Glasgow climate debacle, part 3
Suzano and COP26: Suzano in Glasgow to promote industrial tree plantations as a “nature-based solution” to the climate crisis.