Samling is one of the most destructive logging companies on the planet.

It has concessions covering 1.2 million hectares in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Now it's hoping to sell 106 million carbon credits from 39,000 hectares for essentially doing nothing.

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New: Bezos Earth Fund, a leading carbon market and SBTi financier, backed the approach to offsetting that sparked a revolt at the climate targets group

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“The legitimacy of the entire offsetting system depends, to a huge extent, on the auditors’ green light.”

The allegations of sexual abuse at the Kasigau REDD project confirm that the REDD auditing system is “not fit for purpose”, by Chris Lang is on @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“In fact, the company culture of sexual extortion, assault, & humiliation of women persists because management accepts & enables it.”

“Wildlife Works is responsible for serious human rights abuses at the Kasigau project”, by Chris Lang is on @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Six months after the 2023 Africa Climate Summit, the 2024 Kenya #CarbonMarkets Conference once again intends to boost Africa's carbon markets – a false climate solution with devastating social & environmental impacts opening the continent to #CarbonColonialism . 
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Announcing a new start-up: Fantastic Carbon.

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A recent paper in Science looks at pledges under the African Forest Restoration Initiative and finds that vast areas of grasslands and savanna are threatened by 'inappropriate restoration in the form of tree planting'.

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In November 2023, SOMO and KHRC exposed serious allegations of sexual harassment and abuse at the Kasigau carbon offset project, run by Wildlife Works, in Kenya. Now, Wildlife Works uses underhand tactics to force us to reveal our witnesses. We won't! Read our statement:…

In November 2023, a report by SOMO and KHRC revealed serious allegations of sexual harassment and abuse at the Kasigau #REDD project in Kenya.

Now they stand accused of paying people to come forward. 'This is a baseless claim,' SOMO and KHRC state.

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“Carbon markets have failed to reduce emissions for over 20 years.”

Carbon offsetting, as a foreign-investor-led commodification of people and their environments, has no place in addressing climate change.

The opposition continues to grow...

'Carbon markets have failed to reduce emissions for over 20 years.'

And yet… #climate #parisagreement

More than 100 NGOs urge US special envoy John Podesta to oppose carbon markets and offsets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, by Chris Lang is on @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmonito…

Last week, more than 100 NGOs signed a letter to John Podesta urging him to reject carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

'Carbon markets have failed to reduce emissions for over 20 years.'
Tom Goldtooth, executive director of Indigenous Environmental Network

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Four UN experts on human rights, development, and Indigenous Peoples have raised their concerns about the Nature Conservation Agreement in Sabah.

The State Government of Sabah reacted by dismissing (or just ignoring) the concerns.

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BluEarth Carbon Development Inc:

- is registered in the tax haven of Nevada;
- has zero experience in forest management or carbon trading;
- was set up by an investment banker, Augustine Jarrett;
- is hoping to develop three REDD projects in Liberia.

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Recent @Guardian article shows money from carbon credit sales has not reached local communities in the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe.

South Pole, the project developer has now pulled out.

South Pole is keen to cover up just how much money it made.

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COP28 UAE The physics is not taken in by such PR!

The carbon budget for a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5°C will be blown in 5-8 years of current emissions (if it hasn’t already).

34yrs after the first IPCC report & we’re still locked into lies & delusion rather than cutting emissions.

Poland supplies 32% of IKEA's timber.

The impact on Poland's forests has been severe.

Old-growth forest in the Carpathian mountains is also being logged.

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Demonstration today against #SCAndal : Stop clearcutting irreplaceable forests. Organisations join forces outside SCA's Annual General Meeting. A group of youth climate justice activists also participated inside SCA's AGM;
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$SCA SCA #ClimateCrisis

IKEA is planting monoculture pine plantations in New Zealand to offset its greenhouse gas emissions.

The plantations will be clearcut to be made into IKEA furniture.

'It's corporate bullshit,' says local farmer Kerry Wornsnop.

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