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11.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today's post just might be a little delayed:
11.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“The argument pushed by governments & industry that the emissions can be ignored because new trees will absorb them in the future is wrong & dangerous.”
Woody biomass is a false climate solution & a massive threat to Indonesia’s forests - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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A Swiss company called ASC Impact claims it is developing a "sustainable" carbon plantation in Ethiopia.
But local communities are concerned. "The trees make us very worried," journalists Jennifer Steiner and @aninanina.bsky.social report one man as saying.
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GJEP Statement: Climate Catastrophe and the ICE Storm
Climate catastrophe isn’t the future. It’s already happening and shaping how governments respond.
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Six NGOs in Madagascar have written to Verra to complain about Tozzi Green's tree-planting carbon project in Madagascar.
Local communities are demanding that the company leaves their land.
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KOKO Networks relied on carbon trading to finance its bioethanol cookstoves in Kenya.
Last week, the company collapsed after the Kenyan government refused to issue a letter of authorisation to sell carbon credits under Article 6 and CORSIA.
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A recent paper in Nature Climate Change highlights the danger that carbon trading under the UNFCCC “could undermine global climate action”.
Article 6 rules "lack sufficient safeguards to ensure that these carbon credits deliver real climate benefits".
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Verra has responded to my questions about the recent launch of 500 million Carbon Coins by China Carbon Neutral Development Group.
The launch "appears to be inconsistent" with clause 1.9 of the Verra Registry Terms of Use.
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I first wrote about Brasil Mata Viva in 2012 - a UK-based scam company called Carvier Limited was selling 3 million carbon credits from the company.
Now, the collapse of Banco Master in Brazil features carbon credits from a Brasil Mata Viva REDD project.
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In his speech in Davos, Mark Carney somehow managed not to talk about:
Trump
Fascism
Gaza
Venezuela
The Plastic People of the Universe
The Mothers of Invention
US imperialism
Structural adjustment programmes
The climate crisis
I thought I should.
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The full series is available here:
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For the past few months, REDD-Monitor has been running a series titled "Crooked Carbon Business," based on briefings by Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill.
This is the last one in the series - an overview of the documentation.
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A very welcome statement from @diem25.bsky.social opposing the World Economic Forum:
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The UK’s new climate envoy, Rachel Kyte, imagines carbon as ‘the currency of the 21st century’ - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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New Scientist on carbon offsets:
One of the five worst ideas of the 21st century.
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I'll be in conversation with @annpettifor.bsky.social in a few weeks at Foyles on all things finance!
Hopefully see some of you there - and look out for our interview with Ann @the-breakdown.bsky.social this Thursday 👀
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Hundreds and hundreds of people have joined the Green Party since this was broadcast.
Together - we are growing this movement.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
“While for decades we have been relying on market mechanisms to somehow magically fix the climate crisis, it’s now clear this approach isn’t going to do. The only way to make it work is coordinated government action on a massive scale.”
- @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Dubai-based Alpha MBM Investments is developing a US$4 billion oil refinery in Uganda, while its subsidiary, East African Carbon Company, claims to be developing nature-based carbon projects in Uganda.
Business as usual for carbon markets.
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The last case study in the REDD-Monitor series Crooked Carbon Business by Jutta Kill and Simon Counsell looks at the Livelihoods' Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal.
🚨 Percentage of budget paid to communities: 5.2%
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In July 2025, Cynthia Giles and Cary Coglianese wrote an editorial in Science titled, "Auditors can't save carbon offsets".
Here are their replies to two carbon offset industry responses to their research and critique.
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A series of investigations and academic reports have exposed serious problems with Ecotrust's Trees for Global Benefits project in Uganda - mainly that the trees are planted on farmland, meaning that people end up going hungry.
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“Rather than changing ‘nearly everything’ about carbon offsets, I’d suggest that the only possible way that carbon offsets could support the Paris Agreement would be to abolish them.”
- @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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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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@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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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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“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions & loss of basic rights - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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