Chris Lang
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Your daily reminder that carbon offsets are a scam. reddmonitor.substack.com
Friends of the Earth new report on biodiversity & climate crises: “REDD is not an effective climate solution” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
Friends of the Earth new report on biodiversity and climate crises: “REDD is not an effective climate solution”
Governments and corporations are banking on offsets and are locking in emissions.
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Pour garder le défenseur des droits des communautés indigènes Pranab Doley en prison, l'Etat d'Assam, en Inde, vient d'invoquer le National security act. Pranab s'oppose à la construction d'un hôtel du groupe Hyatt dans un parc naturel #droitdemanifester #droitshumains
Chris Lang@reddmonitor.bsky.social · 6d agoPlease sign on this statement condemning the arrest and demanding the release of human rights defender Pranab Doley and four other Indigenous leaders. Please circulate widely and encourage others to sign on! reddmonitor.substack.com/p/statement-...
Please sign on this statement condemning the arrest and demanding the release of human rights defender Pranab Doley and four other Indigenous leaders. Please circulate widely and encourage others to sign on! reddmonitor.substack.com/p/statement-...
Statement Condemning the Arrest of Human Rights Defender Pranab Doley and the Criminalisation of Indigenous Resistance in Kaziranga
Please sign on to the statement by the Community Network Against Protected Areas.
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Study in the Colombian Amazon reveals that REDD projects exacerbate conflict in Indigenous communities - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
Study in the Colombian Amazon reveals that REDD projects exacerbate conflict in Indigenous communities
Elite capture, weakened governance, and lack of transparency trigger conflicts.
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Oakland Institute@oaklandinstitute.org · last wk.Wildfires raging in Southwest France are not burning natural forests but immense plantations of pine trees. For many years, we have warned Uganda and other African countries about the dangers of establishing plantations of non-native pine species, including wildfires and loss of biodiversity.
On 12 July 2026, Pranab Doley and four other Indigenous human rights defenders were arrested. The arrests followed protests about a Hyatt Group luxury hotel planned next to the Kaziranga National Park in India. UN experts have demanded their release. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-experts...
UN experts demand release of Indigenous activists arrested for protesting proposed luxury hotel next to Kaziranga National Park in India
Following protests against the proposed luxury tourism project, police arrested five Indigenous activists.
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The global mining rush will trigger hundreds of new mines in a short period. The resulting human and planetary devastation will be at a scale never seen before – livelihoods will be destroyed, millions will be displaced, and environmental destruction will become irreversible.”
Chris Lang@reddmonitor.bsky.social · 2w agoNew report by the Oakland Institute reveals that the rush for critical minerals is not about a green transition. More than 70% of mineral demand comes from industries outside the energy transition, like aerospace, military, Big Tech, and AI sectors. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/rush-globa...
The World Heritage Committee is currently meeting in South Korea. One decision involves the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania, where the Maasai are facing mass evictions. Will the World Heritage Committee respect Indigenous Peoples' rights? reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-world-...
The World Heritage Committee must oppose the eviction of Indigenous Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The World Heritage Committee meets in South Korea next week and the fate of the Maasai of Ngorongoro hangs in the balance.
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New report by the Oakland Institute reveals that the rush for critical minerals is not about a green transition. More than 70% of mineral demand comes from industries outside the energy transition, like aerospace, military, Big Tech, and AI sectors. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/rush-globa...
RUSH: Global Scramble for Minerals Wages War on People and Planet
New report from the Oakland Institute highlights how the military, AI, and corporate interests are driving the global rush for critical minerals.
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Carbon pirates: The fake country of the United States of Kailasa & its “perpetual” land grabs in Bolivia - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
Carbon pirates: The fake country of the United States of Kailasa and its “perpetual” land grabs in Bolivia
How a fake country tried to set up land deals in Ecuador, Paraguay, Honduras, and Bolivia.
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Aperam BioEnergia has about 83,000 hectares of FSC-certified monoculture eucalyptus plantations in Brazil. They are used to make charcoal for iron production. Communities have seen their water sources dry up since the plantations came. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/billionair...
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: Lakshmi Mittal, the steel industry’s pollution, monoculture plantations, and carbon credits
While communities in Brazil have seen their water supplies dry up, Mittal’s company is cashing in on carbon credits from its eucalyptus plantations.
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A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency exposes how illegally logged timber from Laos and Cambodia is still being used in Vietnam's wood processing sector. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/how-illega...
How illegal timber from Laos and Cambodia can end up in the Vietnam Timber Legality Assurance System
A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency exposes how illegal timber from Laos and Cambodia is exported to Vietnam, where it becomes “legal”.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is (again) threatening to lift its moratorium on new industrial logging concessions. More than 70 organisations have written to the Prime Minister urging the government not to lift the moratorium. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/coalition-...
Coalition calls on the Democratic Republic of Congo not to lift the moratorium on new industrial logging concessions
More than 70 NGOs have signed on to a letter to the DRC's prime minister.
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A recent REDD+ Global Summit in Kenya failed to deal with the many problems with REDD. "Time is running out, yet countries continue to pursue solutions that ultimately fuel the climate crisis," Kwami Kpondzo of @gfc-forest.bsky.social comments. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-redd-g...
The REDD+ Global Summit failed to address the problems with REDD
Kwami Kpondzo recently reported on the meeting for Global Forest Coalition.
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“Green capitalist solutions are predicated on the continuation of the destructive processes, systems & economic relations that have both delivered us into this crisis & severely delayed action to stymie it.” @adriennebuller.bsky.social - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
Book review: The Value of a Whale by Adrienne Buller
In her book, “The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism,” Adrienne Buller explains how green capitalism not only fails to address the climate crisis, but actually allows the extractiv...
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Maasai Indigenous People are opposing a 1.5 million hectare carbon project on their land. A look at record of the US-based developer, Mark Ritchie, and the opposition to the proposed Kajiado project. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/verra-cann...
Verra “cannot and should not” verify the Kajiado Rangelands Carbon project in Kenya
"With the carbon projects, you are restricted on your own little piece of land.”
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“It is clear that oil & gas companies buying carbon credits are not climate successes but, on the contrary, they are climate failures.” #CarbonCon Offsets discredited. Again - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
Offsets discredited. Again
Analysis by SOMO and Data Desk reveals the offset industry’s claims do not stand up.
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Great description of Musk by @simonhannah.bsky.social : "He is a grifter, a narcissist, a crypto fascist and a hypocrite. He advocates for outright race war in Britain. In short – he is a perfect representative of late stage capitalism." reddmonitor.substack.com/p/reddisms-j...
REDDisms: June 2026
This is the sixth in REDD-Monitor’s occasional series of REDDisms. Each post consists of ten quotations, nine of which are recent and one of which comes from my collection of REDDisms dating back to 2...
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New study looks at whether forest carbon projects also benefit forest ecosystems. The authors found that, "Results highlight fundamental shortcomings of these climate solutions that limit their ability to safeguard healthy ecosystems and sequester carbon." reddmonitor.substack.com/p/most-fores...
Most forest carbon projects have “mixed, negligible or negative impacts” on ecological integrity
“Results highlight fundamental shortcomings of these climate solutions that limit their ability to safeguard healthy ecosystems and sequester carbon.”
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Verra has suspended the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project twice. And reinstated it twice. The project was set up without the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous people living there. There is no legal basis for the carbon project. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/verra-has-...
Verra has reinstated the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project despite an ongoing court case and accusations from Indigenous Peoples of “tricks and dishonest dealings”
“Because if we sign the document without understanding what is inside, it will be like we have agreed to give away our land.”
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While Livelihoods Funds claims that its mangrove project is “revitalizing coastal villages” a recent letter from 72 organisations paints a very different picture and demands a stop to carbon credits from the project. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/stop-carbo...
Stop carbon credit trading by the Danone Group in Aceh’s mangrove forests!
Letter to Livelihoods Fund, VERRA, and Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry from 72 organisations.
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In 2024, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples called for a moratorium on carbon markets. FAO is now organising a seminar in Rome to develop "guiding principles" on "Indigenous Peoples’ engagement in carbon finance". reddmonitor.substack.com/p/fao-is-whi...
FAO is whitewashing the call from the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples for a moratorium on carbon markets
In 2024, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples called for a moratorium on carbon markets, not for an FAO seminar in Rome to develop “guiding principles”.
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“Financialisation doesn’t stop harm - it launders it.” “Putting a price on nature opens the door to its financialisation, not its protection” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
“Putting a price on nature opens the door to its financialisation, not its protection”
An excellent podcast by African Futures Lab, featuring international human rights lawyer Meghna Abraham.
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Over just the last couple decades, the footprint of animal agriculture has dramatically worsened, driven by a global: 53%⬆️ in livestock populations, 22%⬆️ in their GHGs, & 27%⬆️ in cropland use for feed. New report on the trends since the seminal 2006 FAO "Livestock's Long Shadow": rb.gy/1873pj
REDD-Monitor received this response from the developer of the first project approved under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism - a cookstove project in Myanmar. As Biofuelwatch points out in a comment, it leaves many questions unanswered. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/response-f...
Response from the Climate Change Center about cookstoves project in Myanmar: “The Climate Change Center will continue to operate in accordance with applicable international standards and procedures”
“The Climate Change Center has never implemented this programme for the purpose of supporting or legitimizing any political actor or governing authority in Myanmar.”
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Frederic Hache (@greenfinanceobs.bsky.social) nailed this one a while ago: "In a shocking turn of events, a corporate and financial institutions’ climate action organisation decided to favour corporate and financial institutions’ economic interests." reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-scienc...
The Science Based Targets initiatives caves in to corporate lobbying
“SBTi has become an unscientific target setting body without real credibility . . . ”.
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The first carbon credits under the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism are from a "clean-cooking" project in Myanmar. That's carbon credits coming from a country at civil war for the last five years, following an attempted military coup. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/first-arti...
First Article 6.4 carbon credits from cookstove project in war-torn Myanmar
The Ministry implementing the project is controlled by the military junta and is under EU sanctions.
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Danny Cullenward has resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Independent Standards Board. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-greenh...
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has “delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret industry-led working group”
Danny Cullenward has resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Independent Standards Board.
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“Clean rich is the new filthy rich.” #CarbonCon Aspiration Partners, a company that signed a deal to sell 6.75 million carbon credits to Meta, has filed for bankruptcy - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
Aspiration Partners, a company that signed a deal to sell 6.75 million carbon credits to Meta, has filed for bankruptcy
Aspiration’s co-founder Joe Sanberg has been arrested. Board member and investor, Ibrahim AlHusseini, has signed a plea agreement.
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“Exploitation, extractivism, & colonialism lay hidden beneath the surface of Ricardo’s win-win story of comparative advantage.” Book review: Ricardo’s Dream by Nat Dyer - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
Book review: Ricardo’s Dream by Nat Dyer
Nat Dyer’s excellent book takes a deep dive into what lies behind simple economic theories and simple models, and their impact on the real world.
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