Leader of a country struggling from tyrannical colonial rule asks for US help, offering jobs in minerals and other sectors for security guarantees, snubbed by the US President, and then...

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Now available worldwide: more sustainable flying with Green Fares Now also on long-haul routes: Lufthansa Group offers successful Green Fare tariff on its worldwide route network from December 4Already included: CO2 offsetting through the use of sustainable aviation...

.@lufthansa.bsky.social reports 2 million people have been conned into buying its BS 'sustainable flying' premium - 90% spent on dodgy offsets, 10% on 'sustainable aviation fuel' (which isn't sustainable).

Under greenwash investigation by @ec.europa.eu, but not holding my breath.

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‪Excellent new documentary (available through VPN to Denmark) exposing IKEA's sourcing of wood from destroyed Romanian protected forests, the ongoing scandal of greenwashing by the #ForestStewardshipCouncil, and the heroic work of @agentgreen.bsky.social

ORF documentary investigates Rimba Raya REDD project in Indonesia: “All empty promises” Villagers have lost their livelihoods and parts of the forest are burning.

🌳 A recent documentary by Austrian TV programme ORF includes a visit to the Rimba Raya REDD project in Indonesia.

🌳 Project developers promised money, jobs, a medical centre, and a school.

🌳 "All empty promises," says Hasan Efendi, a village chief.

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/orf-docume...

Bankers Find Way to Claim Credit for Avoided Emissions Bankers will soon be able to claim credit for emissions they say their financing has helped avoid, as the world’s largest voluntary carbon accounting framework for the finance industry works on broade...

LoL. It was surely only a matter of time.

Bankers want to get carbon credits for lending money to things which they claim will release less carbon than things they *could* have lent to. What could possibly go wrong...??

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Good expose of Frankfurt Zoological Society and German government agency KFW's planned destruction of the #Maasai of northern #Tanzania, in the name of conservation.

I don't know why this huge new piece of research covering nearly a quarter of the entire voluntary carbon hasn't had more attention, with its damning finding that:

"less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects constitute real emission reductions".

go.nature.com/4fXTSTg

As ever, excellent investigative journalism on climate scams by Tin Fischer. The first of what will no doubt be many exposes of deals through the new global carbon markets which have been (more or less) approved at #COP29.

More great work from the Oakland Institute.

bit.ly/4g1cLWa