Whistleblower on Sabah’s Nature Conservation Agreement: Al Jazeera reports on the two million hectare carbon deal in Sabah.
Tag: Carbon Offsets
Carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis
By Chris Lang During the first phase of the postponed Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (COP15), Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK, wrote an article explaining why carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis….
A marriage made in hell: The World Bank’s Climate Warehouse and crypto company Chia
The World Bank’s Carbon Warehouse and crypto company Chia are helping Big Polluters to buy carbon offsets and continue burning fossil fuels.
The Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project in Brazil is still selling carbon offsets despite failing to stop deforestation
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.
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…