Chris Lang
Your daily reminder that carbon offsets are a scam.
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- A recent paper in Nature Climate Change highlights the danger that carbon trading under the UNFCCC “could undermine global climate action”. Article 6 rules "lack sufficient safeguards to ensure that these carbon credits deliver real climate benefits". reddmonitor.substack.com/p/carbon-tra...
- Verra has responded to my questions about the recent launch of 500 million Carbon Coins by China Carbon Neutral Development Group. The launch "appears to be inconsistent" with clause 1.9 of the Verra Registry Terms of Use. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-launch...
- I first wrote about Brasil Mata Viva in 2012 - a UK-based scam company called Carvier Limited was selling 3 million carbon credits from the company. Now, the collapse of Banco Master in Brazil features carbon credits from a Brasil Mata Viva REDD project. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
- In his speech in Davos, Mark Carney somehow managed not to talk about: Trump Fascism Gaza Venezuela The Plastic People of the Universe The Mothers of Invention US imperialism Structural adjustment programmes The climate crisis I thought I should. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/no-mark-ca...
- For the past few months, REDD-Monitor has been running a series titled "Crooked Carbon Business," based on briefings by Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill. This is the last one in the series - an overview of the documentation. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/crooked-ca...
- A very welcome statement from @diem25.bsky.social opposing the World Economic Forum: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/diem25-we-...
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- New Scientist on carbon offsets: One of the five worst ideas of the 21st century. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/new-scient...
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- Dubai-based Alpha MBM Investments is developing a US$4 billion oil refinery in Uganda, while its subsidiary, East African Carbon Company, claims to be developing nature-based carbon projects in Uganda. Business as usual for carbon markets. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/east-afric...
- The last case study in the REDD-Monitor series Crooked Carbon Business by Jutta Kill and Simon Counsell looks at the Livelihoods' Mangrove Restoration project in Senegal. 🚨 Percentage of budget paid to communities: 5.2% reddmonitor.substack.com/p/crooked-ca...
- In July 2025, Cynthia Giles and Cary Coglianese wrote an editorial in Science titled, "Auditors can't save carbon offsets". Here are their replies to two carbon offset industry responses to their research and critique. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/caveat-emp...
- A series of investigations and academic reports have exposed serious problems with Ecotrust's Trees for Global Benefits project in Uganda - mainly that the trees are planted on farmland, meaning that people end up going hungry. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/crooked-ca...
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- Here's my overview of some of the themes behind the Trump regime's illegal attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Spoiler alert: It's got nothing to do with drug trafficking or weapons. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/its-all-ab...
- @somoamsterdam.bsky.social recently published an investigation into the expanding market for land-based carbon offset projects in Kenya. Carbon projects cover more than 5.4 million hectares in the country - almost as much as the total area of arable land. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-carbon...
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- Happy New Year! Here's a list of REDD-Monitor's most popular posts last year. And some plans for REDD-Monitor in 2026. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/redd-monit...
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- Reposted by Chris Lang🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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- Indonesia wants to generate carbon credit deals worth about US$960 billion during COP30. Indonesia is also currently running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua. And its fossil fuel emissions are increasing. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/indonesias...
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- The EU’s new climate target will allow millions of offsets to be used supposedly to meet the EU’s emissions reductions. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/eu-weakens...
- Survival International put out two new briefings on COP30 - just before COP30 started. One highlights the dangers of carbon offsetting for the climate and for Indigenous peoples. The other outlines “Key points of interest and concern” at COP30. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/survival-i...
- The third in Jutta Kill and Simon Counsell's series "Crooked Carbon Business" looks into the Katingan REDD project in Indonesia. Buyers of carbon credits from the project include Shell, VW, Tokyo Gas, PetroChina, Delta Airlines, TotalEnergies, and Boeing. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/crooked-ca...
- World Rainforest Movement is inviting organisations and social movements to sign on to this women's declaration against REDD and carbon markets. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/no-to-redd...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
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- 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...
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- “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-...
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- 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...
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