Green Finance Observatory’s open letter to Mark Carney highlights the problems with carbon offsets and carbon trading.
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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.

Plant for the Planet: Felix Finkbeiner’s fake forests
A recent article in the Zeit questions the validity of Plant for the Planet’s tree planting operation in Mexico.

“Storage of carbon in plants and soils cannot compensate for emissions of fossil carbon”
By Chris Lang Last week, 23 researchers and experts published an article in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter titled, “Misleading and false myths about carbon offsets”. The article was initiated by Researchers Desk, a non-profit association set up in October 2019 in response to Greta Thunberg’s call to “listen to the researchers”.

REDD-Monitor’s “incredibly important perspective” on the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: “The Taskforce is madness”!
REDD-Monitor recently described Mark Carney’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets as “madness”. Unilever’s member of the Taskforce called this an “incredibly important perspective.”