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Carbon Offset Markets

Bloomberg Green: “How the Carbon Offset Market is Slowing the Fight Against Climate Change”

Posted on 29 April 20213 September 2022

A commentary on Bloomberg’s reporting on how carbon offset markets help to delay action on the climate crisis.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy’s fake forest offsets

Posted on 14 December 202015 December 2020

By Chris Lang Last week, Bloomberg Green published a great article about The Nature Conservancy and how it became “a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets”.

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Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?

Posted on 4 July 2019

By Chris Lang (REDD-Monitor) and Simon Counsell (Rainforest Foundation UK) Unlike carbon capture and storage systems, trees do actually take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it – temporarily, at least. In theory, planting enough new trees, and allowing existing forests to grow and regenerate, could mop up some of the excess CO2 now…

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Recent academic review describes REDD readiness in Indonesia as a “failure”

Posted on 15 February 201915 February 2019

“The REDD+ readiness phase leading up to implementation has been slow and has fallen short of expectations.”

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Companies won’t meet the New York Declaration or the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 deforestation targets. The Nature Conservancy tells us “that’s okay” and TFA says “let’s not dwell on it”

Posted on 29 January 201930 June 2020

In September 2014, more than 50 companies signed on to the New York Declaration on Forests. The declaration has a target to “At least halve the rate of loss of natural forests globally by 2020 and strive to end natural forest loss by 2030.”

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