No one is better than the carbon industry at constantly re-branding concepts without changing the fundamentals of the concept *at. all.*

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/sigma-lith...

Exactly!

“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 open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...

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”. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-kariba...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/latin-amer...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/crooked-ca...

World Rainforest Movement’s sign on statement to stop the Tropical Forest Forever Facility. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/stop-the-t...

📢 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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-green-...

Anyone wondering what to think about Bill Gates' comments on the climate crisis - please read this!

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”. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/new-carbon...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/totalenerg...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/crooked-ca...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/joe-sanber...

80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility & transparency of carbon offsetting schemes - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...

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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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/climate-po...

🎧 Geoff Tansey recently interviewed GRAIN on carbon markets, greenwashing and the new rush for farmland. Check it out: geofftansey.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... @reddmonitor.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @1teresaanderson.bsky.social #COP30

The “Tropical Forest Forever Facility”, to be launched at COP30, is supposed to fund forest conservation. Instead, it will benefit investors in debt markets, which drive deforestation. Please endorse the #StopTFFF statement: www.wrm.org.uy/node/20790 @reddmonitor.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social

Thanks! I could have been tempted…

Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...

I read this book so that you don't have to. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/book-revie...

“There are people who’ve showed up and have offered lots of money, but we’ve said no. We don’t want carbon projects in our territory.” Shapiom Noningo Sesan, leader of the Wampis nation, Peru, September 2025 reddmonitor.substack.com/p/reddisms-o...

Alles bereit für CARBON NEGATIVE Kompensations-Performance im Lichthof Theater. Heute und Morgen in #Hamburg. #Performance #Klima #CO2

“Offsets are simply not the answer when it comes to retiring coal-fired power plants. Indeed, there is a real danger that these offset proposals could result in increased emissions.” @paddymccully.bsky.social, senior energy analyst at Reclaim Finance reddmonitor.substack.com/p/using-carb...

A new report by Rainforest Foundation UK documents the impacts on Indigenous and local communities of the rapid increase in forest carbon projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/a-carbon-l...

Thanks Nat! It was great to talk to you too. I'm very pleased with how this interview turned out - thank you!

A new briefing by Indigenous Peoples’ organisations in Peru documents how Indigenous Kichwa communities lost their rights with the creation of the Cordillera Azul National Park in 2001. Since 2008, the National Park has been a #REDD project. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/we-live-a-...

Communities in Madagascar face pressure from Tozzi Green, an Italian company which leased farmland from authorities to produce & sell carbon credits from "its" plantations. Update from @collectiftany.bsky.social : farmlandgrab.org/33091 @reddmonitor.bsky.social @recommon.org @cicrocevia.bsky.social

Interview with Nat Dyer, the author of the book “Ricardo’s Dream: How economists forgot the real world and led us astray”. It starts with Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage, and moves on to externalities, climate economics, carbon pricing, and REDD. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/economists...

“Over-issuance of millions of carbon credits”: C-Quest Capital announces “wrongdoing” by its former CEO, Ken Newcombe - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...

This is a funny story. 🙂 🙃 🙂 Josep Piñol is a Spanish artist who was planning a large-scale sculpture that also operated as a direct air capture plant. It was to be built in Belém to coincide with COP30. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/cancelled-...

'Carbon credits' are fake. Always have been. Always will be. It really is that simple.

The Oakland Institute is calling on the Tanzanian government to respect the rights of the Maasai living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/tanzania-m...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/many-of-th...

If you’re anywhere near Hamburg, Germany on 17 or 18 October, I recommend going to the Lichthof Theater to see “Carbon Negative”. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/carbon-neg...

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

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/isangi-red...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/152-millio...

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

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". reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-tropic...

Carbon Negative Kompensations-Performance 🗓️ 17.-18. Oktober 2025 ⏰ 20:15 Uhr 📍 Lichthof Theater Hamburg 🎟️ www.lichthof-theater.de/programm/car...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/bolivia-bu...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/declaratio...

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. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/science-ba...

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

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.

(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/

I learned the Spanish word for scam while writing this one: “estafa”. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/a-company-...

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...