Verified hot air: The REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions in Madre de Dios has sold nearly 10 million carbon credits. But it has not reduced deforestation.
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Finnish carbon offsetting firm Compensate finds 91% of carbon offset projects fail its evaluation process. Of course the remaining 9% will also not help address the climate crisis
Compensate’s evaluation process found that 91% of carbon offset projects fail.
“Illegal operations by NIHT Inc”: Kamlapar Incorporated Land Group writes to Papua New Guinea’s Climate Change & Development Authority and Verra
“Illegal operations by NIHT Inc” – A letter from the Kamlapar Incorporated Land Group demands that NIHT Inc’s REDD project be halted on their land.
“Aviation will try anything apart from leaving fossil fuels in the ground”
By Chris Lang For several years, REDD-Monitor has been raising the alarm about the aviation industry’s crazy plans to increase its greenhouse gas emissions massively using carbon offsets as a substitute for meaningful action to address the climate crisis.
Carbon offsets: Australian airline Qantas makes misleading claims about “empowering rainforest communities”, while making the climate crisis worse
By Chris Lang In October 2019, Andrew Penman, a journalist at The Mirror contacted REDD-Monitor. I’d been in touch with Penman a few times in the past, mainly because he’s one of the few journalists in the UK who has regularly exposed the boiler room scams selling carbon credits as investments to retail investors.