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Chris Lang
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Your daily reminder that carbon offsets are a scam.
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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’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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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
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
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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
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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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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
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Exactly!
mbensonster.bsky.social Mike Benson @mbensonster.bsky.social · 21d
We need to just stop burning oil. Anything else is suicidal.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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 and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
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November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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World Rainforest Movement’s sign on statement to stop the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.

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STOP the TFFF now!
World Rainforest Movement has put out a sign on statement to stop the TFFF.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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📢 In September 2025, I wrote about a scam company operating in Peru called Green Home.

☠️ Last week, the company’s investment scheme collapsed.

💣 The money to pay existing investors came from new investors. It was a Ponzi scheme, in other words.

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The Green Home Ponzi scheme has collapsed in Peru
Green Home's app and website have gone and the owners have disappeared with the money.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Anyone wondering what to think about Bill Gates' comments on the climate crisis - please read this!
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27d
notes on gatesnotes, in a thread

"A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES

On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense
A new way to look at the problem Three tough truths about climate What I want everyone at COP30 to know. Bill profile picture By Bill Gates published 1 day ago
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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The Philippines recently set up regulations for generating, managing, and monitoring carbon credits.

Climate Justice activists slammed the new regulation as “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”.

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New carbon credit regulation in the Philippines is “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”
The Peoples Rising for Climate Justice - Philippines slammed the new regulation.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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A Paris Court ruled last week that TotalEnergies misled consumers by claiming that it could be carbon neutral by 2050 - while continuing exploration and extraction of fossil fuels.

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TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing
Following a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace France, Les Amis de la Terre France, and Notre Affaire à Tous, with the support of ClientEarth.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The first in a series of briefings by Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill takes a detailed look at the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions programme in Guyana.

Jurisdictional REDD doesn’t solve the problems with REDD, it just magnifies them.

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Crooked Carbon Business: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, Guyana
Far from solving the problems of REDD projects, jurisdictional REDD magnifies the problems.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Joe Sanberg, co-founder of Aspiration Partners, has pleaded guilty to a US$248 million fraud.

Sentencing is planned for 23 February 2026.

He could be sentenced up to 40 years in jail.

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Joe Sanberg, co-founder of carbon trading company Aspiration, pleads guilty to US$248 million fraud
But will the Commodity Futures Trading Commission complete its investigation into the carbon credits that Aspiration bought?
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October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility & transparency of carbon offsetting schemes - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility and transparency of carbon offsetting schemes
According to the National Environmental Services Survey.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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"Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change - here's why" is a recent paper, published in Nature magazine.

It documents "fatal flaws" with offsets:
🚨 "Hot air";
🚨 Additionality;
🚨 Permanence; and
🚨 Offsets distract from ending fossil fuels.

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Climate policy experts call for “excluding or phasing out offsets from carbon-pricing schemes and other climate policy processes”
A call to “act on the science”.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM