A letter from Greenpeace UK and the Wildlife Trusts is critical of Mark Carney’s carbon offsetting plans. But not critical enough.
Tag: Carbon Offsets
Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: The global financial elite’s plan to profit from the climate crisis while maintaining business as usual for Big Oil
Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets is what happens when the financial elite are let loose on the climate crisis.
The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading
The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading revisited, 16 years later.
Sarah Milne on REDD in Cambodia: “Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders”
REDD in Cambodia. Three things make Sarah Milne, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, uncomfortable about REDD credits: Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders.
Arundhati Roy on what’s wrong with REDD: “Once again, the Global North, the creators of the problem, will see to it that they profit from the solution that they propose”
By Chris Lang Arundhati Roy is one of my favourite writers. Over Christmas, I’ve been reading her book Azadi. The book is a series of essays about Hindu nationalism, India’s occupation of Kashmir, and the coronavirus pandemic. As far as I’m aware, she hasn’t (yet) written specifically about carbon markets or REDD. But in a…