Chris Lang
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Your daily reminder that carbon offsets are a scam.
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Here's my overview of some of the themes behind the Trump regime's illegal attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Spoiler alert: It's got nothing to do with drug trafficking or weapons.
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Spoiler alert: It's got nothing to do with drug trafficking or weapons.
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It’s all about oil: The Trump regime’s illegal military attack on Venezuela and kidnap of President Maduro
Deranged Trump Syndrome has gone to a dangerous new level.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Here's my overview of some of the themes behind the Trump regime's illegal attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Spoiler alert: It's got nothing to do with drug trafficking or weapons.
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Spoiler alert: It's got nothing to do with drug trafficking or weapons.
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@somoamsterdam.bsky.social recently published an investigation into the expanding market for land-based carbon offset projects in Kenya.
Carbon projects cover more than 5.4 million hectares in the country - almost as much as the total area of arable land.
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Carbon projects cover more than 5.4 million hectares in the country - almost as much as the total area of arable land.
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The carbon land grab in Kenya
SOMO investigates the expanding market for land-based carbon offset projects in Kenya.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social recently published an investigation into the expanding market for land-based carbon offset projects in Kenya.
Carbon projects cover more than 5.4 million hectares in the country - almost as much as the total area of arable land.
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Carbon projects cover more than 5.4 million hectares in the country - almost as much as the total area of arable land.
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Germany’s ongoing €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud: “It is possible that we are dealing with a case of serious environmental crime here” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Germany’s ongoing €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud: “It is possible that we are dealing with a case of serious environmental crime here”
German authorities’ action is “too little, too late” says whistleblower.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Germany’s ongoing €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud: “It is possible that we are dealing with a case of serious environmental crime here” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Happy New Year!
Here's a list of REDD-Monitor's most popular posts last year.
And some plans for REDD-Monitor in 2026.
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Here's a list of REDD-Monitor's most popular posts last year.
And some plans for REDD-Monitor in 2026.
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REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2025
And REDD-Monitor’s plans for 2026.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Happy New Year!
Here's a list of REDD-Monitor's most popular posts last year.
And some plans for REDD-Monitor in 2026.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/redd-monit...
Here's a list of REDD-Monitor's most popular posts last year.
And some plans for REDD-Monitor in 2026.
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“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions & loss of basic rights - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions and loss of basic rights
The government has removed the Ngorongoro division from the voters’ register, denying the Maasai the right to vote.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions & loss of basic rights - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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Surprise, surprise! Article 6 carbon credits face exactly the same problems as voluntary carbon credits #CarbonCon - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Surprise, surprise! Article 6 carbon credits face exactly the same problems as voluntary carbon credits
Offsets instead of emissions cuts, double counting, junk credits, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights remain unresolved problems.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Surprise, surprise! Article 6 carbon credits face exactly the same problems as voluntary carbon credits #CarbonCon - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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From Land Matrix to GRAIN, data show how carbon offsets fail communities and climate goals. Our take for @mongabay.com, zooming in on Madagascar.
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Assessments argue carbon offsets are failing communities and climate goals (commentary)
The Land Matrix, a collaboration between the International Land Coalition and several universities, just published a new report on land deals for carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are “credits” sold to p...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
From Land Matrix to GRAIN, data show how carbon offsets fail communities and climate goals. Our take for @mongabay.com, zooming in on Madagascar.
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“There isn’t enough land available on the planet to address the climate crisis by planting trees.”
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees
Four years after Benioff announced the trillion trees initiative, Bloomberg takes a look at how it's going.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“There isn’t enough land available on the planet to address the climate crisis by planting trees.”
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Carbon credits of any sort should not be used to compensate for fossil emissions.”
“Various types of carbon credits are ineffective”, says the Science Based Targets Initiative - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Various types of carbon credits are ineffective”, says the Science Based Targets Initiative - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Various types of carbon credits are ineffective,” says the Science Based Targets initiative
SBTi’s synthesis report on the effectiveness of carbon credits is a “bombshell rebuke to offsets”.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Carbon credits of any sort should not be used to compensate for fossil emissions.”
“Various types of carbon credits are ineffective”, says the Science Based Targets Initiative - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Various types of carbon credits are ineffective”, says the Science Based Targets Initiative - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Indonesia wants to generate carbon credit deals worth about US$960 billion during COP30.
Indonesia is also currently running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua.
And its fossil fuel emissions are increasing.
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Indonesia is also currently running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua.
And its fossil fuel emissions are increasing.
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Indonesia’s carbon trading at COP30 slammed by climate justice activists
“The main goal should still be to reduce emissions at their sources.”
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November 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Indonesia wants to generate carbon credit deals worth about US$960 billion during COP30.
Indonesia is also currently running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua.
And its fossil fuel emissions are increasing.
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Indonesia is also currently running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua.
And its fossil fuel emissions are increasing.
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“Currently, oil, mining, agribusiness, hydroelectric & other infrastructure & carbon offset projects, such as REDD… continue the ethnocide of our people, killing our cultures, languages, identities, knowledge & wisdom.”
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“REDD projects are projects of death,” say Ka’apor Indigenous People in the State of Maranhão, Brazil
Wildlife Works is developing a REDD project on Ka’apor land in the Alto Turiaçu Indigenous Territory.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“Currently, oil, mining, agribusiness, hydroelectric & other infrastructure & carbon offset projects, such as REDD… continue the ethnocide of our people, killing our cultures, languages, identities, knowledge & wisdom.”
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The EU’s new climate target will allow millions of offsets to be used supposedly to meet the EU’s emissions reductions.
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EU weakens its 2040 climate goal with an international carbon credits loophole
“EU’s new Climate Law has opened the door to a dangerous expansion of the offsets industry.”
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November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The EU’s new climate target will allow millions of offsets to be used supposedly to meet the EU’s emissions reductions.
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Survival International put out two new briefings on COP30 - just before COP30 started.
One highlights the dangers of carbon offsetting for the climate and for Indigenous peoples.
The other outlines “Key points of interest and concern” at COP30.
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One highlights the dangers of carbon offsetting for the climate and for Indigenous peoples.
The other outlines “Key points of interest and concern” at COP30.
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Survival International: “Nature-based offset projects enable polluters to continue high emissions under the guise of carbon ‘neutrality’”
Two new briefings from Survival International on COP30.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Survival International put out two new briefings on COP30 - just before COP30 started.
One highlights the dangers of carbon offsetting for the climate and for Indigenous peoples.
The other outlines “Key points of interest and concern” at COP30.
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One highlights the dangers of carbon offsetting for the climate and for Indigenous peoples.
The other outlines “Key points of interest and concern” at COP30.
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The third in Jutta Kill and Simon Counsell's series "Crooked Carbon Business" looks into the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia.
Buyers of carbon credits from the project include Shell, VW, Tokyo Gas, PetroChina, Delta Airlines, TotalEnergies, and Boeing.
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Buyers of carbon credits from the project include Shell, VW, Tokyo Gas, PetroChina, Delta Airlines, TotalEnergies, and Boeing.
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Crooked carbon business: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation project, Indonesia
Shell has bought millions of carbon credits from this project in order to claim that fossil fuels are “carbon neutral”.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The third in Jutta Kill and Simon Counsell's series "Crooked Carbon Business" looks into the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia.
Buyers of carbon credits from the project include Shell, VW, Tokyo Gas, PetroChina, Delta Airlines, TotalEnergies, and Boeing.
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Buyers of carbon credits from the project include Shell, VW, Tokyo Gas, PetroChina, Delta Airlines, TotalEnergies, and Boeing.
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World Rainforest Movement is inviting organisations and social movements to sign on to this women's declaration against REDD and carbon markets.
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No to REDD! “Our territories are sacred, and we do not put a price on that which gives us life”
An invitation for organisations and social movements to sign on to this women’s declaration against REDD and carbon markets.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
World Rainforest Movement is inviting organisations and social movements to sign on to this women's declaration against REDD and carbon markets.
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At the UN Biodiversity Convention in Panama, Indigenous leaders raised the alarm: planned use of #GMO trees as “carbon offsets” threaten lands, forests & communities—especially in #Brazil.
#StopGETrees #ClimateJustice #ForestsNotOffsets @annegjep.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @reddmonitor.bsky.social
#StopGETrees #ClimateJustice #ForestsNotOffsets @annegjep.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @reddmonitor.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
At the UN Biodiversity Convention in Panama, Indigenous leaders raised the alarm: planned use of #GMO trees as “carbon offsets” threaten lands, forests & communities—especially in #Brazil.
#StopGETrees #ClimateJustice #ForestsNotOffsets @annegjep.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @reddmonitor.bsky.social
#StopGETrees #ClimateJustice #ForestsNotOffsets @annegjep.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Almost none of the deeds were valid. The preservation programs, she said, were built on a lie.”
Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects
The investigation found that more than half of all REDD projects in the Amazon overlapped with public land.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Almost none of the deeds were valid. The preservation programs, she said, were built on a lie.”
Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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No one is better than the carbon industry at constantly re-branding concepts without changing the fundamentals of the concept *at. all.*
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
No one is better than the carbon industry at constantly re-branding concepts without changing the fundamentals of the concept *at. all.*
A Canadian lithium mine in Brazil claims to be "carbon neutral".
Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Sigma Lithium claims that its mine in Brazil is “carbon neutral”. It bought REDD carbon credits from the Unitor REDD project, which is now suspended and accused of illegal logging
Ricardo Stoppe Júnior, the man behind the Unitor REDD project, is accused of selling about US$34 million illegal REDD credits.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A Canadian lithium mine in Brazil claims to be "carbon neutral".
Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Exactly!
We need to just stop burning oil. Anything else is suicidal.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Exactly!
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“Just as carbon offsetting delays climate ambition, biodiversity offsetting will only delay urgent action on addressing the root causes of biodiversity loss.”
Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
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November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Just as carbon offsetting delays climate ambition, biodiversity offsetting will only delay urgent action on addressing the root causes of biodiversity loss.”
Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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CarbonPlan recently wrote a critique of Verra’s response to the 15.2 million fake carbon credits sold by the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe.
CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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The Kariba REDD project reveals a “deep structural flaw” in Verra’s carbon credit programme
Analysis by CarbonPlan shows that Verra’s proposed solution to Kariba’s “excess credits” simply does not work.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
CarbonPlan recently wrote a critique of Verra’s response to the 15.2 million fake carbon credits sold by the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe.
CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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This statement by 55 social movements and organisation from Latin America and the Caribbean rejects carbon markets.
It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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Shoutao Wu (@shouatowu)
This is more than just a statement denouncing the coloniality of carbon markets. It is a fundamental rejection of the ontological capture in eco-modernism and the green economy, which rely on technocr...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This statement by 55 social movements and organisation from Latin America and the Caribbean rejects carbon markets.
It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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The latest in Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill's briefings: "Crooked Carbon Business".
This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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Crooked Carbon Business: Hawk Mountain Improved Forest Management Project, USA
The Nature Conservancy’s fake carbon offsets.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The latest in Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill's briefings: "Crooked Carbon Business".
This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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