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#carbonoffsetting — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carbonoffsetting, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "AMY GOODMAN: It’s one of the largest oil corporations in the world, #ADNOC, the #AbuDhabiNationalOilCorporation, #SultanAlJaber, who is the head of this COP.

    "NNIMMO BASSEY: Yes. And, you know, we’ve heard so many things going on. And with the #FossilFuel industry being so prominent here, with bankers crawling the spaces of the COP, we’re seeing a lot of trade discussions. And, you know, this breaks my heart when I look at the way African negotiators or policymakers, the politicians, are bending back and accepting whatever is being thrown at them by the — through those who are investing in #CarbonOffsetting or #CarbonTrading mechanisms. We’re seeing a sellout of #AfricanContinent.

    "And we know the implications for this. One, it means once you sell out a territory for a period of time, you’ve lost #sovereignty, so to speak, over that place, over that #forest, over that community, over that territory. And then it means negatively — negative impact on communities who live in the area that we are selling out. We’re talking about millions of hectares being mapped out to be sold for #CarbonCredit generative facilities. And, you know, some of this means #reforestation or forestation. It means clearing the land and planting new trees. Now, that itself emits, releases a lot of carbon from the soil. And then, of course, these #NewTrees are #monocultures, and they don’t — they are not as efficient #CarbonSinks as #NaturalForests. And so we’re seeing losses in every dimension."

    #Africa #COP28 #EnvironmentalRacism
    #Greenwashing #ClimateActivism #CorporateColonialism

  2. Of course you all already knew that all this shit about #CarbonTrading and #CarbonOffsetting was never about anything but fraud and greed. Of course you were angry about Brewdog et al's theft of land in Scotland, and #ScotGov's complicity in it. But have you thought about the consequences of that for the #GlobalSouth?

    Listen to this and RAGE!

    #ClimateEmergency

    anchor.fm/s/549ede24/podcast/p

  3. #CarbonPirates seek countries abundant in #ecological #biodiversity#exploiting #NonEnglish speaking #communities to sign rights over to them. This #phenomenon was #observed especially in countries such as #Papua NewGuinea , #Africa & #Indonesia. Carbon pirates came into these nations to set up REDD+ #CarbonOffsetting & communities were #coerced into signing agreements that did not fit their best interests.

  4. Hello 👋

    I'm a policy advisor working on #decarbonising the UK economy.

    I'm exploring how to build a more complete picture of emissions. E.g. what a regulator might look like for #carbonaccounting #Carbonoffsetting #carbonremoval and #carbonmarkets.

    Also interested in global #carbonstandards #lowcarboneconomy and #CircularEconomy

    I'm fascinated by #systemsthinking and #wickedproblems in #policy and #politics and I'm doing a PhD in this part time.

    Like #CleanAir don't like #fireworks