#carbon-credits — Public Fediverse posts
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Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵 #carbon #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #policySky
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Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵
#assets #assetStranding #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits #carbon
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"The cause of climate change is the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels. But instead of focusing on the fundamental root cause, we’ve been focused on the interim product, emissions.
"But what I show in the book is that managing tons is an extremely narrow and technical understanding of the problem of climate change."Jessica Green: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-big-flaw-in-climate-policy-were-trying-to-solve-the-wrong-problem/
#assets #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits
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Megan Evans, Crikey:
"The forests that should be regenerating in projects covering 42 million hectares — an area almost twice the size of Victoria — are simply not appearing at the rate they are being credited for, and most of these HIR projects are wildly non-compliant."
"The ‘boom-and-bust’ nature of rangelands makes them ill-suited to nature-based solutions involving carbon sequestration in vegetation and soils."
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How that "good policy working well" according to Chris Bowen is working out for Australia:
Megan Evans, Crikey** (below)
420000km2 = Australia's land for carbon credits = 6 TasmaniasABC Australia:
19000km2 = global solar = a third of TasmaniaFossil fuel companies are creating and investing in their own carbon credits eg: Woodside/Chevron. Woodside owns 72 properties in NSW to offset.
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So glad we've figured out how to rebrand deforestation as carbon removal.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/carbon-removal-wildfire-prevention-jpmorgan
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How Carbon Capture and ESG Drive Net Zero Emissions and Carbon Credit Opportunities
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Can businesses achieve net zero emissions while creating new revenue streams?With carbon capture technology and ESG strategies, the answer is yes.
Organizations are now turning emissions into value through carbon credits, while improving sustainability performance and meeting global climate goals.
#NetZero #CarbonCredits #CarbonCapture #ESG #ClimateTech #Sustainability
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Carbon Credits Explained: How Carbon Capture Creates New Revenue Streams
Carbon credits explained simply:
CO₂ is no longer just an emission — it’s a revenue-generating asset.
Capture CO₂
Convert into carbon credits
Trade in carbon markets
Unlock new revenue streamshttps://carbelim.io/carbon-credits-explained-carbon-capture-revenue/
#CarbonCreditsExplained #CarbonCapture #CarbonCredits #ClimateTech #Sustainability #NetZero #GreenEconomy #ESG #SmartCities
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Can Carbon Credits Clean Up Big Tech’s AI-Fueled Emissions Surge?
As multiple large-scale data centres are developed around the globe, Big Tech is investing heavily in a range…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AI #bigtech #carboncredits #climatepolicy #datacenters #Emissions #environment #greenwashing #Microsoft #netzero #renewableenergy #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Can Carbon Credits Clean Up Big Tech’s AI-Fueled Emissions Surge?
As multiple large-scale data centres are developed around the globe, Big Tech is investing heavily in a range…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AI #AU #Australia #BigTech #carboncredits #climatepolicy #DataCenters #emissions #Greenwashing #Microsoft #netzero #RENEWABLEENERGY #Science
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‘Weakening climate leadership’: Is the EU’s 2040 emissions target ambitious enough?
Published on 12/03/2026 – 12:54 GMT+1 The EU has been accused of “weakening its climate leadership” after greenlighting…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #carboncredits #ClimateChange #CO2emissions #environment #EuropeanCouncil #globalwarming #greenhousegasemissions #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?
"The risk of “catastrophic unforeseen consequences”.""...Using chemicals to solve an environmental problem seems reckless. “What we’re seeing is a push to exert more precise control over natural systems."
"To some it was a reckless experiment but scientists hope the dispersal of 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine could ease the climate crisis" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/10/sodium-hydroxide-ocean-global-heating-solution
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"Desde el sur de África hasta Sudamérica, la aparición de proyectos de créditos de carbono, adquiridos por las empresas para reducir su huella medioambiental, se traduce en el acaparamiento de tierras en detrimento de las poblaciones locales."
#ClimateChange #Carbon #CarbonCredits #LatinAmerica #Africa #EU #Climate
Desde África hasta América Latina, los proyectos de compensación de carbono favorecen los riesgos de acaparamiento de tierras
https://legrandcontinent.eu/es/2026/02/23/desde-africa-hasta-america-latina-los-proyectos-de-compensacion-de-carbono-favorecen-los-riesgos-de-acaparamiento-de-tierras/ -
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2 simple chilling facts:
The world's solar currently fits into a third of tasmania - c/o Australia Broadcasting Commission aka ABC.Australia's carbon credits to fraudulently offset only *our* fossil fuel emissions?
More than 6 tasmanias.
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Do you have vacation plans? Have you purchased offsets for the carbon pollution from your vacation yet? CarbonCure #CarbonCredits help scale the technology from early adoption toward standard industry practice and accelerating real-world #Climate impact #EnergySky www.carboncure.com/carbon-credi...
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«The #UN is putting #refugees to work in poorly paid green jobs to generate #carboncredits for billion-dollar firms. It’s one of the most cynical instances of a corporate #greenwashing agenda that has done little to address #climatechange.»
#Corporations Are Using Carbon Credits to #Exploit Refugees
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Seeing Forest As Merely A Carbon “Commodity”: Dangerous Greenwashing
The huge danger of commodifying forests and seeing them as merely an “investment” to be bought and sold as ‘carbon credits’ has many loopholes that deny indigenous sovereignty, social and economic outcomes of communities and pose grave extinction risks to wild animals and plants. Take action when you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
The huge danger of commodifying #forests 🌿 🔥 and seeing them as merely an “investment”, denies #indigenous sovereignty, social and economic outcomes of communities and #extinction risks. #humanrights 🌴⛔️ #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-92u
Share to BlueSky Share to Twitter‘Carbon credits’ turn #forest 🌳🔥 ecosystems into investments but deny #indigenous communities their rights and are often blatant #greenwashing. Use your wallet as a weapon and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #landrights @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-92u
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterWritten by Constance McDermott, Senior Fellow in Forest Governance and Leader of Ecosystems Governance Group, University of Oxford; Eric Kumeh Mensah, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford, and Mark Hirons, Environmental Social Science Research Fellow, University of Oxford. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Forests are great carbon sinks – they absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release. Globally, forests remove nearly all of the two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide that is currently being removed from the atmosphere every year.
These days, companies can buy “carbon credits” for the carbon that is stored in living forests and offset this against their own greenhouse gas emissions. International financiers estimate that by 2050, Africa could be selling US$1.5 trillion in carbon credits per year, mainly from its forests. Environmental social scientists Constance L. McDermott, Eric Mensah Kumeh and Mark Hirons are co-authors of a report on global forest governance for the International Union of Forest Research Organisations. They have found that buying and selling forest carbon as a commodity is dangerous if it is prioritised over the other environmental and social uses of forests. It could even result in environmental damage and the displacement of forest-dependent people.
What is a carbon sink?
All living things contain carbon, and are considered carbon sinks when they absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release. Many ecosystems serve as carbon sinks, but forests have a large biomass (wood and twigs and leaves on the forest floor). This makes them a very important sink from a climate perspective.
The carbon that trees capture is sequestered (stored) in their wood, leaves or needles, and roots. When forests are cut down or burned, their stored carbon is released into the atmosphere and becomes a source of carbon emissions rather than a sink. Forest carbon sinks can be conserved by leaving live trees standing, or created and enhanced by planting or natural regeneration of trees.
Why is it a problem for a forest to be seen only as a carbon sink?
Forests support and regulate soil, water and nutrient flows, and provide habitat for the majority of the world’s species that live on land. They provide people with food, fuel, fibre, medicine and other products.
They are important to the cultural survival and well-being of many communities. In Africa alone, an estimated 245 million people live within five kilometres of a forest, and many of these people rely directly on forests for their livelihoods.
Our research found that forests are increasingly being managed as carbon sinks, and the carbon they store treated as a commodity that can be internationally traded. Carbon markets allow businesses and governments to earn credits by paying for forests that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which is cheaper than reducing their own emissions. This is part of what we call the climatisation of forests.
Animal agriculture and meat, The contents of your fridge and dining table directly impacts the future of rare rainforest and ocean animals. That’s because industrial agriculture and aquaculture for commodities like meat, dairy, fish and palm oil is driving animals in the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet closer towards extinction.Governing forests only as carbon sinks can promote “green grabs” where non-forested land, such as grasslands, used by communities for farming and other activities, is taken from the community and used by wealthy companies or governments to plant large tracts of trees to store carbon. Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, is being targeted as a readily available and inexpensive location for one million hectares of forest restoration and tree plantations.
This is especially threatening for people who do not have secure rights to the forests and land they depend on. These communities can even be restricted or banned from entering the forest. Research has found that forest-dependent communities are rarely given power to address their own priorities in forest carbon sink schemes. This can cause conflict locally and weaken local democracy.
Let’s take the example of the Mai-Ndombe forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which supports about 100,000 people in 23 villages. Activities in the Mai-Ndombe under the global Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) climate change mechanism have focused on changing the practices of local forest-dependent communities away from cutting trees for artisanal logging or firewood collection. These communities have also been told not to continue with traditional methods of shifting cultivation (where parts of a forest are temporarily cleared to grow food crops without deforesting the area permanently).
Yet in Mai-Ndombe and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s other forests, land is already allocated to companies for timber (mainly for the export market), for mining, and increasingly for forest carbon sequestration. The result is that large companies continue to extract major economic benefits from forests in ways that exclude local communities.
Ghana’s Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme is another example. In a bid to reduce deforestation and increase forest carbon stocks, the government of Ghana pays farmers and local communities to not plant cocoa crops in forested areas and to grow shade trees on their cocoa farms.
These efforts to share benefits locally are very important. However, asking farmers to plant or conserve trees does not address the fact that farmers are not earning a living income from selling cocoa.
Ghana’s cocoa farmers receive less than 7.5% of the value of a chocolate bar sold in international markets, and they suffer from food insecurity and increasing crop failures due to climate change. They do not have legal rights to the native trees that regenerate naturally on their cocoa farms.
The focus of REDD+ on channelling large amounts of money into forests as carbon could mean that many farmers lose access to land for growing food and meeting other livelihood needs – unless this is balanced by major investments to address the core challenges the farmers are facing.
What are some solutions?
Forests can absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide and still support communities. A people-centred approach to forests is needed. This means giving local communities secure rights to their land and forest resources, and governing forests according to what best suits the local context, rather than making forest use fit the international market.
The important role of traditional authorities and local customs in managing land and resolving conflicts must be recognised. Many traditional practices have managed forests sustainably for thousands of years. The challenge is to value and support these alternative approaches.
Written by Constance McDermott, Senior Fellow in Forest Governance and Leader of Ecosystems Governance Group, University of Oxford; Eric Kumeh Mensah, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford, and Mark Hirons, Environmental Social Science Research Fellow, University of Oxford. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Undundund @virgil_tibbs?
Also anscheinend hast du nicht mal ein paar #Carboncredits fuer dein letzte Buch bei @tierranietos ankreiden lassen. Was du da schreibst kann jede*r behaupten ..
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📉 COP30: Zimbabwe's forest and energy projects reveal the downside of carbon credits
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cop30-zimbabwe-forest-energy-reveal.html
#zimbabwe #africa #climatechange #carboncredits #crime #fraud #corruption #financialization
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Der neue Beitrag von Carsten Müller (Hochschule Fulda) zeigt, wie die Tokenisierung solcher Zertifikate – ihre handel- und prüfbare Abbildung auf einer Blockchain – für mehr Transparenz sorgt und ökologische Kriterien präziser in digitale Finanzarchitekturen integriert.
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Are carbon rating agencies the key to avoiding greenwashing?
With the European Union reintroducing carbon credits as a tool for industries and businesses to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, carbon rating agencies are ready to help evaluate whether the system actually works.
#CarbonCredits #Greenwashing #CarbonOffset #Climate #GreenhouseGas #CarbonDioxide #EU
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The CO2 emission cut by 2040 is backed by the European Parliament's green committee.
Lawmakers in the Parliament's environment committee backed the revision of the bloc's climate law which sets the EU27 to cut 90% greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
The vote keeps the flexibilities requested by EU governments but demands stricter rules on the use of global carbon credits.
#EuropeanParliament #Politics #CarbonEmissions #GreenhouseGas #CarbonCredits #EU
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Consolidation begins to hit the carbon credit market
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Google Buys Amazon Carbon Credits To Offset Impact of AI Datacenter BuildOut
#AI #ClimateChange #Google #BigTech #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #CarbonCredits #Environment #Tech #Energy #ClimateAction #Reforestation #EnvironmentalJustice #Alphabet #AIInfrastructure
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📢 Just published: The Report on Carbon Offsetting by the Land Matrix Initiative , published by CDE, @GIGA_Institute and CIRAD.
As demand for #carboncredits grows, a wave of land acquisitions has swept across the Global South.
🌍 More than 8.8 million hectares of land have already been acquired through concessions or outright purchases for carbon offset projects.
👩🌾 These projects often overlap with areas inhabited by #IndigenousPeoples & local communities.
Learn more 👉 https://t.ly/mptRW