Your daily reminder that carbon offsets are a scam.
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"Ghost carbon" is how Julien Andrieu of Côte d’Azur University describes 168,000 carbon credits generated from this mangrove planting carbon project in Senegal.
"Many trees died or never grew," Andrieu writes.
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And here it is:
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A long post (partly) about carbon offsets and AI.
Carbon traders love AI, because it's rapidly expanding and very polluting.
Sure, it's making the climate crisis worse. But it creates demand for carbon credits.
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“Carbon credits are an excuse to continue destroying nature in exchange for money.” #CarbonCon
Land grab: Tozzi Green’s carbon plantations in Madagascar - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Joe Sanberg, co-founder of fintech bank and carbon trading company, Aspiration Partners, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for defrauding investors and lenders.
Sanberg's scheme resulted in losses of US$248 million.
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One of the world's biggest data centres is being proposed five miles from where I grew up. The planning proposal is total nonsense—but they're not fooling any locals.
I attended the public meeting against the centre. Read my report: www.planetcritical.com/plans-for-ma...
"The AI boom has everything the carbon traders have ever dreamed of — a huge increase in fossil fuels to power data centres, vast amounts of money, commitments to “net zero”, and a complete disregard of the impacts on either people or the environment"
AI is climate arson
I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board.
The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group.
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A long post (partly) about carbon offsets and AI.
Carbon traders love AI, because it's rapidly expanding and very polluting.
Sure, it's making the climate crisis worse. But it creates demand for carbon credits.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/climate-de...
The Ministry implementing the project is controlled by the military junta and is under EU sanctions.
“This case has touched almost every badge of fraud.”
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Locals are rallying against the CATO, an allegedly "net zero", "zero waste" data centre which will "harvest rainwater" while providing "data sovereignty".
With this biomass cook stove carbon credit project in #Myanmar, promises of 'rigorous requirements' for carbon markets under the Paris Agreement have basically gone up in smoke:
#carbontrading
Featuring Milton Friedman, Koch Industries, the Cato Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, Eric Schmidt, and Wildlife Works’ Jeremy Freund.
A long post (partly) about carbon offsets and AI.
Carbon traders love AI, because it's rapidly expanding and very polluting.
Sure, it's making the climate crisis worse. But it creates demand for carbon credits.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/climate-de...
Chris Lang
Featuring Milton Friedman, Koch Industries, the Cato Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, Eric Schmidt, and Wildlife Works’ Jeremy Freund.
🚨 NEW REPORT
First-ever carbon credits issued under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement are from a project implemented through Myanmar's military junta.
Our report raises serious concerns about human rights, conflict and carbon market integrity.
📄 https://bit.ly/4fEZViL
