Owen Paterson has done it again - offering up ancient woodland for development via 'biodiversity offsetting' - planting new trees elsewhere. Trouble is, says Austin Brady, ancient woods are centuries in the making.
… January 2014 Comment Forests Biodiversity Offsetting UK Ancient Woodland … woodland for development via 'biodiversity offsetting' - planting new trees elsewhere. … has moved the discussion about 'biodiversity offsetting' up back the agenda - and …
Big Oil going carbon neutral? Here is how carbon offsets impact local and indigenous communities.
… include substantial amounts of carbon offsetting. According to a report released by … CO 2 . The credits are “produced” by private offsetting projects that claim to absorb CO 2 … companies and the organisations managing the offsetting projects to take a significant …
Using carbon markets to 'offset' industrial pollution is a failed experiment of 19 years duration, writes Chris Lang. But the International Civil Aviation Organization, which holds its General Assembly later this month in Montreal, is determined to offset its emissions - up 76% in 12 years - rather than constrain or reduce them.
… ICAO's proposal relies heavily on carbon offsetting. The proposal gives the impression … emissions from burning fossil fuels. Carbon offsetting does not reduce emissions . In … be whether to include REDD offsets in ICAO's offsetting scheme. As a way of addressing …
Plans to create a market in nature itself are fraught with danger, writes Alex Scrivener. Biodiversity offsetting could allow the fate of our forests, rivers, meadows and wildlife species, and the people who depend on them, to be determined by the whims of multinational corporations and speculative investors.
… danger, writes Alex Scrivener. Biodiversity offsetting could allow the fate of our … the form of species banking and biodiversity offsetting. As a society, we've become … soil erosion, are worth nothing. Biodiversity offsetting, making dreams come true from …
Hidden away in the pages of UN-speak that make up the Paris Agreement are the makings of global carbon market in which a host of exotic emissions derivatives can be freely traded, writes Steffen Böhm. And it's all going to be a huge and expensive distraction from the real and urgent task of cutting emissions.
… expansion of carbon trading, including offsetting, which allows the market exchange … 'carbon trading', 'carbon pricing', 'carbon offsetting' and 'carbon markets' don't appear … for a massive expansion of carbon trading and offsetting while setting some basic standards. …
Jet Zero is a charade, driven by considerations of profit, economic growth and aviation's corporate consumers.
… Zero’s other offerings: fuel efficiency and ‘offsetting and removal’. Read Part 1: Jet … do or may one day function. The final one, offsetting , is an outright scam. That it is … Jet Zero - indeed any role - is a scandal. Offsetting is the right to pollute in one …
China will no longer participate in the start of the world’s first and only international deal to curb emissions from the aviation industry - but it could rejoin. EMMA HOWARD of UNEARTHED reports
… it has had raised objections with the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for … rise within 1.5C by 2050. The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for … from environmentalists who believe offsetting is not a long-term solution and …
Almuth Ernsting of Biofuelwatch gives her view on Biochar, a charcoal product that is claimed by some to have the potential to sequester enormous amounts of carbon........
Biochar: a cause for concern? Almuth Ernsting | 24th July 2013 Comment charcoal.jpg Almuth Ernsting of Biofuelwatch gives her view on Biochar, a charcoal product that is claimed by some to have the …
Carbon trading has a remarkable record of failure: rewarding polluters while causing no discernible reduction in global emissions. If the COP21 UN climate negotiations in Paris are to achieve anything of value, first they must ditch the false solution of carbon markets. And thanks to Pope Francis, the idea is firmly on the agenda.
… the various emissions trading and carbon offsetting schemes that leave decisions such … recently published in a special carbon offsetting edition of the journal Environment …
Controls on adverts for oil companies, SUV makers and airlines are already starting to happen - but what else should we stop advertising to raise our survival chances?
… to offset the impact of purchases. However, offsetting does not reduce emissions and may …
Keeping peoples on their land is our responsibility if we want to succeed in building a world for climate justice.
Can land as carbon sink save us? Kirtana Chandrasekaran | 7th September 2021 | Comment Perspectives On A Global Green New Deal Carbon aerical_view_of_resource_extraction.jpg Keeping peoples on their …
How the UN plans on making money from environmental refugees.
… Displaced Persons Climate Refugees Carbon Offsetting Editor’s Picks corno-dafrica.jpg … are multiple reasons why carbon credits and offsetting don’t work. We have no reliable way …
The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture made its high-profile launch at the New York Climate Summit. But for a huge coalition of civil society organizations, it's a 'greenwash' initiative designed to promote intensive profit-driven industrial agriculture at the expense of small farmers, environment, and the real solutions.
… environmental and social integrity of carbon offsetting. Carbon sequestration in soils is …
The term ‘natural capital' was cited a number of times in the UK government’s 25-year environment plan. Yet measuring the value of our environmental resources in purely economic terms is both short sighted and dangerous, argues BEN KITE
… lucrative alternative comes into view. Offsetting biodiversity Breaking down the … planned habitat replacement or ‘biodiversity offsetting’ can often fail to compensate … Even when completed well, biodiversity offsetting can never accurately replace the …
‘Climate Smart Agriculture' can be applied to anything from industrial monocultures to agroecology, writes Helena Paul - and fertiliser, biotech and agribusiness corporations are seizing the chance to cash in. Now COP21 host France is proposing to use soils as a giant carbon sink - a fine idea in itself, but not if it's used to 'offset' continued fossil fuel emissions, and to greenwash industrial agriculture.
‘Climate-Smart Agriculture' - preparing for a corporate soil and climate-grab in Paris? Helena Paul EcoNexus | 26th November 2015 Comment COP21 Farming The Land Climate Change Emissions France …
Dear Sir Ian Blatchford: Scientists for Extinction Rebellion send open letter to the Science Museum Group calling for an end to Shell sponsorship.
… publicised rely on unfeasible levels of offsetting and carbon capture and storage … scientists, documenting myths around offsetting and net zero targets, says such … 10 myths about net zero targets and carbon offsetting, busted [17] The trouble with …
Thousands of miles by train, coach, bus, boat and foot and, at the last hurdle, Ewan finds that there's no way to cross the Tasman Sea except on metal wings...
… the airline with my queries about their offsetting program, and haven't heard back … Airlines admit carbon reductions to come from offsetting Aviation sector wants to avoid a …
Mainstream solutions to climate change are all based on reducing the world down to a single metric - tonnes of carbon. But as Camila Moreno, Daniel Speich Chassé & Lili Fuhr explain, this uni-dimensional world view is doomed to failure as it neglects all the difficult things that matter most: people, communities, ecosystems, love, beauty, politics, money, corruption, and corporate power.
… ,' ' carbon footprint ,' and ' carbon offsetting ' would have raised some quizzical … or 'mitigation banking' , 'biodiversity offsetting' and 'forest credits' . These …
It was a loophole that most of us thought had been sewn up. But new research shows that companies are continuing to cash in on the 'super' greenhouse gas HFC-23
… surrounded a particular type of carbon offsetting. At issue were the billions being …
Only an ambitious policy, backed by technologies that remove carbon from the air, can bring the EU in line with the Paris Agreement temperature goals
… centre stage, the focus would merely be on offsetting residual emissions from industry, … likely start with extending current emissions offsetting practices like afforestation and …
Carbon forestry provides a low-cost and low-risk means for investors to hedge their carbon responsibilities.
John Gould asks how a new type of arboreal landscape, designed to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, will impact on wider issues such as sustainability and biodiversity.
Carbon Forestry: Environmental Asset Or Liability? John Gould | 9th November 2012 Comment Carbon forestry provides a low-cost and low-risk means for investors to hedge their carbon responsibilities. …
Climate change has dramatically affected sea level, and as a result, our shorelines. Creating more living shorelines could decrease the effects of climate change by helping underwater plants to thrive, writes EMILY FOLK.
How shorelines can adapt to climate change Emily Folk | 21st June 2018 Comment Climate Change Durdle Door Climate change has dramatically affected sea level, and as a result, our shorelines. Creating …