Confusion reigns as UN Environment publishes, then retracts, an article criticising the use of carbon credits to make up for polluting activities.
… UN retracts carbon offsetting critique Natalie Sauer Climate Home News | 12th June 2019 News Carbon Offsetting Un Policy Thought Leaders … an unusually stark critique of carbon offsetting on Monday. On Tuesday, the article …
The Environmental Audit Committee has slammed the aviation industry for a ‘diverse and generally unsatisfactory attitude’ towards their misuse of carbon offsets.
… The Ecologist | 23rd July 2007 News EAC Offsetting Offset Off-setting BA British … singled out British Airway’s attempts at offsetting as ‘risible’. Since including a link to offsetting company Climate Care into its …
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 …
The International Chamber of Shipping has committed the industry to legally binding emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement. Unlike the aviation industry, it will make no use of carbon 'offsets', but will reach its targets by increasing efficiency and moving to lower carbon fuels.
… start in 2021, although details of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for …
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 …
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 …
Rural people living on the frontline of Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in southern Madagascar are seeing their rights ignored, their lives and livelihoods devastated.
… it mines . QMM has imposed a biodiversity offsetting programme on forests some 50km …
The government will announce voluntary standards today to regulate carbon off-setting programmes - the schemes by which environmentally friendly projects such as planting trees are undertaken to 'off-set' the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
… Thursday to publish a standard for carbon offsetting, so that people will be able to tell whether the offsetting schemes they are using or thinking …
Continuing expansion of China has offset the reduction in carbon emissions in recession-hit western countries, according to data released by US
An atlas of pollution: The world in carbon dioxide emissions Fiona Harvey guardian environment correspondent | 31st January 2011 News Carbon Emissions Pollution World Climate Change carbpn1.jpg US …
An Ecologist investigation reveals how the largest coal power plant to be awarded UN carbon credit funds is displacing poor communities and destroying forest in India. Luke Starr reports from Madhya Pradesh
… campaigners are abducted INVESTIGATION Carbon Offsetting: forgive my carbon sin? We all want … and the notion of purchasing them via carbon offsetting is powerfully seductive. as Jules …
Protecting rainforests is now almost as lucrative as cutting them down. Mark Anslow reports on a commodities-centred approach to stopping deforestation
… however. ‘Trading schemes promote an “offsetting mentality” – that the West can pay …
Coalition of environmental groups including RSPB and the National Trust urge government to introduce a levy on chemical industry and enforce bigger fines for polluters
Pesticide companies told to fund clean up of waterways Tom Levitt | 10th November 2010 News Water Pesticides Pollution Waterways Chemical Industry Health rivertrent.jpg Crop protection industry …
Pollution is the world’s largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death, a Lancet Planetary Health report warns.
Pollution kills nine million people Emily Beament | 18th May 2022 | News Lancet Planetary Health Pollution air-pollution_78335-5.jpg Pollution is the world’s largest environmental risk factor for …
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations, writes WRM in this Open Letter for delivery to the FAO today, International Forests Day. This mis-definition seriously harms real forests and forest peoples as it justifies the clearance of real forests and their replacement with cash crops of trees.
FAO: Plantations are not forests! World Rainforest Movement | 21st March 2017 Comment Forests Un Campaigning Indigenous Peoples eucalyptus_plantation_in_final_stages.jpg Since 1948 the UN's Food and …
The European Union's carbon market, the EU ETS, is meant to cut pollution in a cost effective way. But a new report shows that it handed the EU's biggest emitters a €24bn bumper payout over six years. Not so much the 'polluter pays' principle but the precise opposite: people pay, and polluters profit.
Europe's biggest polluters land €24 billion carbon windfall The Ecologist | 17th March 2016 News EU Pollution Climate Change Emissions Corporations 7947187334_7b3b42295c_o.jpg The European Union's …
Despite a growing consensus in favour of alternatives such as 'carbon clubs' and bilateral agreements, Friends of the Earth's Craig Bennett says the UN is our best hope for tackling climate change
Durban climate change conference: why we should stick with the UN talks Craig Bennett | 10th November 2011 Comment Climate Change Un Durban Friends Of The Earth Durban Climate Change Conference …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
Deadly toll of fossil fuel pollution: the old economy versus planet and people Pete Dolack Systemic Disorder | 6th April 2017 Activism Economics Future Climate Change Pollution Health …
Should it be Heathrow or Gatwick? The answer, writes Keith Taylor, is neither. For climate and pollution reasons alone the UK should be scaling back on aviation, and in any case projections of future demand have been monstrously exaggerated. Step 1: a 'frequent flyer' tax on the 15% of people who take 70% of flights.
… but on weak energy efficiency and dubious 'offsetting targets', that won't be mandatory …
The renewable power boom is excellent news for people and planet, writes Pete Dolack. But let's not get carried away: much energy that claims to be 'renewable; like biomass and big hydro, is no such thing. And greening our energy is just one of many steps to a sustainable world. The greatest challenges - like tackling the monster of infinite 'growth' - all lie ahead.
… ultimately lead to lower costs, more than offsetting the investments in renewable-energy …
A study in Torbay is the first time i-Tree software has been used in the UK to establish the true value of the 'urban forest' and raises questions over the effectiveness of smaller trees in absorbing carbon and pollutants
Do smaller trees play any real role in tackling carbon and pollution? Chris Baker | 11th April 2011 News Tress I-Tree Carbon Dioxide Pollution Climate Change Natural World News treesleaves.jpg The …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
GM trees in US Claire Robinson | 1st November 2007 News Gm Trees US Anne Petermann Global Justice Ecology Project US Gm Products US Gm Products Green Living Natural World Politics And Economics …