Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction
Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.
Read more...Category Archives: Carbon credits
Goodbye Glasgow: What’s Next for Global Climate Action?
After COP26, and as the debate on whether Glasgow represents a success or a failure dies down, what next for global climate action?
Read more...‘Net Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam
Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny. The IPCC is inadvertently helping them.
Read more...Amazon: Regrowing Forests Have Offset Less Than 10% of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation
Unless drastic changes are made to halt deforestation and encourage forests to regrow, the Amazon cannot fulfil its potential to mitigate climate change.
Read more...Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests
Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures
Read more...Sharks: The Ultimate Keystone Species?
Sharks, in a zeitgeist of top predator-worship and science triumphalism.
Read more...Soil Science, Climate Change, and Property
Our understanding of soil is changing fast with new science. But can soil science help prevent global warming? Or, if the problems are political, not scientific, what is the political barrier?
Read more...Carbon Taxes and Carbon Pricing Are Not Solutions to the Climate Crisis
A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.
Read more...AOC’s Green New Deal as Politics
Why AOC’s Select Committee for a Green Deal Deal would be an electoral winner.
Read more...Don’t Call It a Tax: Inside Washington’s Attempt to Pass a “Fee On Pollution”
After a decade of failed carbon taxes, Washington state is pushing to pass the country’s first “carbon fee.” Will this time be different?
Read more...Trump’s Carbon Capture Tax Break: Mechanical and Biological Paths
Looking at the potential benefit of tax subsidies for carbon capture.
Read more...That’s Not MY Greenhouse Gas!
Climate pacts like the Paris Accord do little because they focus on in-country greenhouse gas emissions, not ones based on consumption.
Read more...Trump EPA Pick: Scott Pruitt as EPA Head Signals Agency Will Ignore Climate Change
Nomination of Oklahoma State AG Scott Pruitt to head the EPA signals the intention to unwind Obama administration climate change policies.
Read more...Donald Trump’s Swamp: Meet Ten Potential Energy and Climate Cabinet Picks and the Pickers
Link-rich summary of backgrounds, connections and biases of ten possible picks for Trump’s climate and energy team, collected in one post.
Read more...Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic
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