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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 16h

A new paper titled “Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?” answers its own question with a resounding “NO!”

This is the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness of carbon offsetting so far.

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“Many of the most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems”

The “most comprehensive review of evidence” finds that carbon offsets just don't work.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re anywhere near Hamburg, Germany on 17 or 18 October, I recommend going to the Lichthof Theater to see “Carbon Negative”.
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Carbon Negative: A theatre performance that exposes climate colonialism

Next performance in Hamburg, 17 and 18 October 2025.

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Konradin @konradinkunze.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social on our Flinn Works performance 'CARBON NEGATIVE'. Next shows: Lichthof Theater Hamburg 17-18 Oct

Carbon Negative: A theatre performance that exposes climate colonialism

Next performance in Hamburg, 17 and 18 October 2025.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 2d

The Blattner family's Isangi REDD project sold 1.3 million carbon credits.

@hannanik.bsky.social and Jonas Gerding analysed the satellite images of the project and concluded that it led to few, if any, emissions reductions.

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Isangi REDD project: “Emissions reductions were likely short-lived if they occurred at all”

Verra has frozen the buffer pool carbon credits from the project.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 3d

South Pole looked at the satellite data for the Kariba REDD project and estimated that 27 million carbon credits were fake.

Verra carried out a nearly two-year long investigation into the project and estimated that 15.2 million carbon credits were fake.

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15.2 million fake carbon credits were sold from the Kariba REDD project according to Verra

Almost two years after suspending the project, Verra has completed its carbon accounting review. The quality control review is still ongoing.

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polqat @polq.at · 4d

“Why do military expenditures and fossil fuel subsidies receive public funds while forests must rely on stock markets?”

Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 4d

Larry Lohmann of The Corner House has written a new report on the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.

Lohmann explains in detail why "the TFFF must not be allowed to get off the ground in Belém".

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The Tropical Forest Forever Facility: “A fund for wealthy people and Wall Street”

New report from The Corner House on TFFF.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 4d

Larry Lohmann of The Corner House has written a new report on the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.

Lohmann explains in detail why "the TFFF must not be allowed to get off the ground in Belém".

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The Tropical Forest Forever Facility: “A fund for wealthy people and Wall Street”

New report from The Corner House on TFFF.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 4d

Why is Vivaldi better than LibreWolf?

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Konradin @konradinkunze.bsky.social · 6d

Carbon Negative
Kompensations-Performance

🗓️ 17.-18. Oktober 2025
⏰ 20:15 Uhr
📍 Lichthof Theater Hamburg

🎟️ www.lichthof-theater.de/programm/car...

Eine von hinten beleuchtete Kugel, oben aus Moos, unten mit einer technischen Gitterstruktur vor dunklem, nebligen Hintergrund. Text: Carbon Negative -
Komnsations-Performance. Lichthof Theater Hamburg 17.-18.10.2025 20:15 Flinn Works

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 5d

A new documentary film by The Gecko Project focuses on the fires in Bolivia last year and the role of Mennonite communities and Cargill in destroying Bolivia’s forests.

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“Bolivia Burning”: New documentary exposes deforestation by the Mennonites with complicity from Cargill

New documentary film by the Gecko Project.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 5d

It seems to be the new browser I'm using - LibreWolf (which I'm using because it is AI-free).
Apparently I have to allow Canvas to upload pictures properly to BlueSky:
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LibreWolf Browser

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 5d

A recent meeting of Indigenous Peoples from Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Bolivia produced the Declaration of Túpac Amaru.

The Declaration rejects carbon markets and REDD.

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Declaration of Túpac Amaru: “We warn that carbon markets promote the dispossession of our territories”

Meeting of Indigenous Peoples on Carbon Markets: Impacts, Initiatives, and Resistance in San Martín, Peru.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 6d

Not sure why the photo came out as green stripes! The original didn't look like that...

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 6d

A recent letter from the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance with 31 sign-ons from civil society organisations was sent to the Science Based Targets Initiative.

The letter opposes the use of CO₂ removals and offsets in SBTi's net zero standard.

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“Science-based decision-making entails making rapid, dramatic, and sustained emission reductions” not CO₂ removals and offsets

Civil society open letter to the Science-Based Targets Initiative.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 9d

More responses to the Science Based Targets initiative decision about including carbon offsets: “ineffective, harmful even, to the climate cause” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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More responses to the Science Based Targets initiative decision about including carbon offsets: “ineffective, harmful even, to the climate cause”

Two letters opposing carbon offsets and one from a carbon trading lobby organisation in favour.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · 6d

As the 'Global North' burns more and more energy for junk (see the AI 'actor'?), war, and mass surveillance, its pretence for concern about pollution is turned into... more and more money for its own elites.

Quelle surprise!

BUT... you can't fool all the people all the time.

Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 13d

The Bezos Earth Fund and Amazon are closely linked. Both promote carbon markets.

Carbon offsets are Amazon's false solution to its rapidly increasing emissions - which are largely a result of AI.

Post based on a report by @grain.org.

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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: The Bezos Earth Fund, AI, and carbon offsets

A recent report by Grain highlights the conflicts of interest and promotion of carbon offsets in the Bezos Earth Fund.

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · 7d

(1) Kate has written a short paper, 'The Evolving Doughnut', which concisely sets out the ideas that inspired the framework she created in 2012, and describes how and why it has changed over its three iterations. Plus download the latest Doughnut diagrams (CC-BY) 5/

The Evolving Doughnut | DEAL

A report by Kate Raworth on the Doughnut's evolution since 2012, with the latest Doughnut diagrams available to download

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 12d

I learned the Spanish word for scam while writing this one: “estafa”.

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A company called Green Home is running a carbon credit Ponzi scheme in Peru

Yet more carbon cowboys.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 13d

The Bezos Earth Fund and Amazon are closely linked. Both promote carbon markets.

Carbon offsets are Amazon's false solution to its rapidly increasing emissions - which are largely a result of AI.

Post based on a report by @grain.org.

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/billionair...

Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: The Bezos Earth Fund, AI, and carbon offsets

A recent report by Grain highlights the conflicts of interest and promotion of carbon offsets in the Bezos Earth Fund.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 16d

“We fear that vague specifications & lax controls will result in a lot of money being made without actually achieving the stated emissions reductions.” #CarbonCon

Germany’s €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Germany’s €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud

“The system has proven to be opaque and has proven to be prone to errors.”

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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 20d

All around the world, groups are preparing for a day of action to raise awareness of the impacts of the biomass industry. YOU are invited to join them! #BigBadBiomass🪚🌳

You can take part: organise an online or offline action on October 21st. Learn how: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21d

not the main point here but truly it fucks me off so much when a guy like this publishes something monstrous, shitty, incorrect and lazy, and he characterises the responses as "polarising"

Yes, the two poles were "awful people who liked it" and "everyone else who hated it"

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21d

"I had friends say to me, look, we can oppose political violence without whitewashing this guy. I spent some time thinking about that over the weekend...and my reaction honestly is that it is too little to just say we oppose political violence."

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 23d

One of the most destructive corporations in the world, Asia Pulp and Paper, announced a new “sustainability platform” last week.
It’s a step backwards from APP’s 2013 Forest Conservation Policy - which in any case the company completely failed to implement.
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Greenwash! Asia Pulp and Paper’s new “sustainability” policy

APP’s new policy is “essentially a rerun of promises it made a decade ago but has largely failed to deliver on,” says Sergio Baffoni of Environmental Paper Network.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 Cambodia is going on a dam-building spree in the Southern Cardamom mountains.
🔥 Two REDD projects, the Samkos REDD project and the Southern Cardamom REDD project, are affected.
🚨 Five dams have been constructed. Eight more are under construction.
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Forest cleared for Irrigation Dam 2 construction overlaps proposed Samkos REDD project in Cambodia

A series of dams is under construction or already built inside Wildlife Alliance’s Samkos and Southern Cardamom REDD projects.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 23d

“In 2015, Gucci emitted 801,000 tonnes of CO2. In 2021, the figure was 1.09million tonnes. That’s an increase of 36%.”

Gucci’s sustainability claims rely on carbon offsets & accounting tricks - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Gucci’s sustainability claims rely on carbon offsets and accounting tricks

New investigative report from Follow the Money exposes Gucci’s tricks.

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