By Chris Lang During the COP26 UN climate meeting in Glasgow, Greta Thunberg tweeted out a “Greenwash Alert”. She pointed out that the fossil fuel industry and the banks are “among the biggest climate villains”. Shell, BP, and Standard Chartered were in Glasgow “trying to scale up offseting and give polluters a free pass to…
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Greenpeace calls for phasing out of fossil fuels. “Offsetting allows big polluters to delay and distract from reducing their own emissions”
Greenpeace calls for phasing out of fossil fuels. “There’s no time for offsets.” “We’re in a climate emergency.” “They’ve managed a new trick to screw us all.”
Greenpeace on Carbon Dioxide Removal and REDD: “The experience has been more often negative than positive”
A new Greenpeace reports looks at corporate plans for Carbon Dioxide Removal – and includes a look at the experiences of forest sinks and carbon markets.
New Greenpeace report exposes VW’s REDD carbon offset sham. The Katingan REDD project faces problems of additionality, permanence, leakage, land conflicts, and (of course) an unverifiable, counterfactual baseline
By Chris Lang A new report by Greenpeace investigates VW’s “climate neutral” production claims for its new ID series of electric cars. Greenpeace concludes that VW has done too little to reduce its CO2 emissions, and that the carbon credits bought from the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia are neither additional nor permanent. VW’s claims…
Greenpeace rejects the one trillion trees campaign: “Treewashing the climate crisis with promises of large tree plantations”
By Chris Lang “Planting trees is now advocated by a wide range of stake-holders, often in the form of large-scale, monoculture tree plantations. In the current form, these will aggravate, not improve, the climate and biodiversity crises.” That’s from a new briefing by Greenpeace rejecting the one trillion trees campaign that was launched last month…