Achtung #Greenwashing! Blue Carbon aus #Dubai will in #Liberia 1 Mio ha #Regenwald „sichern“. Nicht aus Liebe zur Natur, sondern um mit #CarbonCredits Geld zu verdienen. Das ist keine Lösung für die #Klimakrise! Bitte UNTERSCHREIBT + TEILT die #Petition! https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1274?t=361-345-2780-1

#Greenwashing! Blue Carbon aus #Dubai will in #Liberia 1 Mio ha #Regenwald „sichern“. Nicht aus Liebe zur Natur, sondern um mit #CarbonCredits Geld zu verdienen. Keine Lösung für die #Klimakrise! Bitte UNTERSCHREIBT+TEILT #Petition! https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1274?t=361-344-6160-1 via @RettetRegenwald

Europe's Biggest Oil Company [Shell] Quietly Shelves a Radical Plan to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint

"A faltering offsets program points to new problems with the corporate world’s favorite 'climate solution.'"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-31/shell-silently-abandoned-its-100-million-a-year-plan-to-offset-co2-emissions

#Shell #oil #carbonCredits #carbonSink #environment #climateChange #climateCrisis

@breadandcircuses so much for anyone selling #CarbonCredits.

The Guardian reports that the carbon credit market is collapsing because it turns out a large portion of the schemes are scams. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! #ClimateChange #CarbonCredits https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/24/carbon-credit-speculators-could-lose-billions-as-offsets-deemed-worthless-aoe

@yogthos and how much of that forest had been traded for fraudulent #CarbonCredits?

Every business that claims it is #CarbonNeutral based on so-called carbon trading, every politician who promotes #CarbonTrading schemes, should be treated as criminal. This is deliberate deception.

Carbon offsets: the good, the bad, the unharmful

#decarbonization #climateaction #carbonoffsets #business #finance #investing #renewableenergy #energy #carbonmarkets #carboncredits #sustainability #sustainablebusiness #consumers #consumerspending

https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2023/science-based-targets-carbon-offsets/781566

Carbon offsets: the good, the bad, the unharmful

#decarbonization #climateaction #carbonoffsets #business #finance #investing #renewableenergy #energy #carbonmarkets #carboncredits #sustainability #sustainablebusiness #consumers #consumerspending

https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2023/science-based-targets-carbon-offsets/781566

In light of various recent calls to plant lots of trees (plant 1 billion trees, anyone?), I think it worth sharing this excellent, reasoned article on the topic.

https://theconversation.com/there-arent-enough-trees-in-the-world-to-offset-societys-carbon-emissions-and-there-never-will-be-158181

#rewilding #ClimateChange #CarbonCredits #biodiversity

Carbon credits - land grab or the Amazon’s future? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66435166

I don't trust these "carbon credit" companies one bit. Like all BigBiz, all they care about is profits, not people, let alone the planet. I smell a scam.

#ClimateCrisis #Amazon #CarbonCredits

What is the point in #CarbonCredits?

In a nutshell, they are instruments to 'short #sustainability' - Yes, betting on our own self-destruction.

The more the World fails to achieve its carbon reduction targets, the more valuable these useless credits will be... but they have ZERO effect in reducing the CO2 in the air.

So we will end up with an overheated planet, humanity at the brink of extinction... and a big pile of money...

Pathetic.

Carbon credits are the brainchild of someone who when presented with a disaster about to happen, doesn't search for solutions, but ways of profiting from it.

I don't even want to think about the new universe of carbon credit derivatives, futures, swaps and crypto tokens that will be build around this empty concept.

We need actual ways of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, so the big bucks and brains should be going to those ideas instead.

No more time and money spent on moving CO2 from left to right for a fee. This does not help at all.

#greenWash #CO2 #decarbonisation #humanity

Cut through the smoke on Canada’s Logging Emissions. If it’s true that logging is this big a problem, I think we have a right to a clear answer. We want to see the government come clean on logging emissions. | PETITION Nature Canada #forestry #carboncredits https://act.naturecanada.ca/page/130941/petition/1

@ElGriego #alttext "sorry ladies, you need to put out the fire. Europe just bought your CO2 quota". #CO2 #CarbonOffsets #CarbonCredits #Europe #Africa

Brazilian Indigenous chief demands greater role in climate debate #carboncredits #capitalism #IndigenousVoice https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/28/brazilian-indigenous-chief-demands-greater-role-in-climate-debate

Once you start unpacking Tesla's balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling #CarbonCredits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

But even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla's got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to *1600x* its profitability:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles

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#carboncredits:

https://mastodon.uy/@tierranietos/109713476336253911

Row crop farmers in 65 #Missouri counties (OK, 64 + the city of #StLouis) are eligible to signup for a multistate conservation program spearheaded by #Iowa #Soybeans. The program allows farmers to generate #carboncredits by adopting common #conservation practices like #notill and #covercrops.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/select-missouri-farmers-eligible-for-conservation-program/

Our >50 unit strata in Vancouver BC recently installed EV infrastructure in our parkade. We're planning to use a company to manage billing, load balancing, etc. This company is asking us to sign a contract that gives them all carbon offset credits associated with the service... 1/

#CarbonCredits #NetZero #ESG #greenwashing

Italy’s central bank calls for framework to prevent stablecoin runs - Bank of Italy is calling for closer regulator scrutiny of stablec... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bank-of-italy-urge-regulation-prevent-stablecoin-runs #consumerprotection #decentralizedid #infrastructure #carboncredits #bankofitaly #supplychain #realestate #bankruns #payments #voting #depeg #terra #defi #luna

IFC-Backed Carbon Opportunities Fund Uses Chia Network to Settle Tokenized Carbon Credits - Investment company Sumitomo Corporation of Americas purchased a batch of tokenized carbon... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/06/28/ifc-backed-carbon-opportunities-uses-chia-network-to-settle-tokenized-carbon-credits/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #carboncredits #finance #news #chia