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.
Tag: Carbon Offsets

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

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
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.

Carbonballs: Nigel Farage opposes “net zero” while hoping to cash in on carbon trading with Dutch firm DGB Group
Carbonballs: Nigel Farage hopes to profit from carbon offsets, while opposing net zero.

Papua New Guinea declares a moratorium on voluntary REDD projects
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.