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Tag: Carbon Offsets

Verra’s response to REDD-Monitor’s questions about Toucan’s transferring of retired carbon offsets to the blockchain: “An entity that retires a VCU and then creates a token is not, strictly speaking, tokenizing a VCU, but is instead creating an instrument that exists outside of Verra’s ecosystem”

Posted on 12 April 202212 April 2022

Verra’s response to REDD-Monitor’s questions reveal little about Toucan, offsets, and blockchain, except that Verra is, legally speaking, carefully covering its arse.

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Toucan's crypto layer

Toucan’s crypto layer on top of carbon offsets is expanding the market for toxic hot air

Posted on 11 April 202221 December 2022

Toucan’s crypto layer on top of carbon offsets is doing nothing to address the climate crisis. In fact it is making it worse.

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The UN’s Expert Group on net zero is not a “greenwashing watchdog”. It’s a toothless lapdog that will legitimise the net zero con

Posted on 4 April 20224 April 2022

The UN’s Expert Group on net zero will produce a set of voluntary standards, with no mechanism to implement the standards. The Group itself is greenwash.

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Carbonballs: Nigel Farage

Carbonballs: Nigel Farage opposes “net zero” while hoping to cash in on carbon trading with Dutch firm DGB Group

Posted on 1 April 20221 April 2022

Carbonballs: Nigel Farage hopes to profit from carbon offsets, while opposing net zero.

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Papua New Guinea declares a moratorium

Papua New Guinea declares a moratorium on voluntary REDD projects

Posted on 19 March 202230 June 2022

By Chris Lang On 2 March 2022, Wera Mori, Papua New Guinea’s Minister of Environment, Conservation and Climate Change issued a “Moratorium on PNG REDD+ Voluntary Carbon Market Projects”. The Moratorium was published by the Post Courier and Melanesian Carbon Watch posted a screenshot on Twitter.

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