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Communities in Zimbabwe received nothing from carbon credit sales in C-Quest’s cookstove projects
A new report by Swedwatch and Green Governance Africa exposes “missing benefit sharing and poor community engagement”.
Feb 12
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Chris Lang
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REDDisms: February 2026
An occasional series of the things people say about carbon trading, the climate crisis, and REDD.
Feb 11
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Chris Lang
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Indigenous Peoples threatened with violence, livestock theft, and evictions from Mukogodo Forest, Kenya
Statement and letter from the East Africa Indigenous Women-Led Assembly.
Feb 10
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Chris Lang
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KOKO Networks’ cookstove carbon credits in Kenya were “largely hot air”
“They would have taken everything that Kenya is entitled to.”
Feb 9
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Chris Lang
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Confusion and alarm over ASC Impact’s carbon plantations in Gambella, Ethiopia
“The trees make us very worried.”
Feb 6
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Chris Lang
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Call to sign on: NO to REDD! Declaration of the Amazon meeting on carbon projects
Aug 4, 2024
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Chris Lang
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In 2024, for the second year running, forests stopped acting as a carbon sink
Apr 28, 2025
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Chris Lang
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In 2023 the world’s forests stopped acting as a carbon sink
Aug 7, 2024
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Chris Lang
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“NO to REDD and Carbon Markets”
May 13, 2025
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Chris Lang
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Six Malagasy civil society organisations have written to Verra to complain about Tozzi Green’s carbon plantation land grab in Madagascar
Local communities have been protesting against the company’s operations for more than a decade.
Feb 4
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Chris Lang
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The collapse of KOKO Networks. A cookstoves project in Kenya that relied on compliance carbon trading
When the Kenyan government refused to issue a letter of authorisation KOKO collapsed.
Feb 3
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Chris Lang
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Carbon trading under Article 6 threatens to make the climate crisis worse
UN standards inevitably fail to address the flaws in inherent in carbon trading.
Feb 2
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Chris Lang
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“The launch of 500 million Carbon Coins appears to be inconsistent” with the Verra Registry Terms
“Verra is currently assessing the matter to determine the appropriate next steps.”
Jan 30
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Chris Lang
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The “biggest bank fraud” in Brazil’s history involves carbon credits from Fazenda Floresta Amazônica, a Brasil Mata Viva project
REDD-Monitor first warned about Brasil Mata Viva in 2012.
Jan 29
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Chris Lang
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No, Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum was not “pretty good”
Some thoughts on Carney’s “a rupture, not a transition” speech.
Jan 27
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Chris Lang
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Crooked Carbon Business: Overview of documentation
Carbon trading has made the climate crisis worse.
Jan 22
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Chris Lang
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DiEM25: “We reject the World Economic Forum as a fortress of authoritarian power”
“Reproducing a capitalist, patriarchal, warmongering and neo-colonial economy built on exclusion and the relentless extraction of life.”
Jan 21
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Chris Lang
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New Scientist: Carbon offsets are one of the five worst ideas of the 21st century
Along with Bitcoin, Social media, Alternative fuels, and Effective altruism.
Jan 20
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Chris Lang
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