“It is insane… the whole process is guided by the twisted, society-destroying logic of capital, which prioritises corporate profits above all else. Each challenge to a part of that logic will work most powerfully as part of a challenge to the whole.” #CCS #CarbonCon
theecologist.org/2026/mar/05/...
The UN is turning refugees into #carbonoffset workers - #CarbonMarkets #CarbonCredits #CarbonCon
theconversation.com/the-un-is-tu...
“The original sin of offsetting as a way to pay for the social cost of carbon is that this mechanism contributes to delaying green investments.” #CarbonOffsetting #CarbonMarkets #CarbonCon
An Environment for Business
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/an-...
“By prioritising the creation of tradable financial assets over the physical restoration of ecosystems, the UK government has overseen a giant confidence trick: a system where bankers get rich, the public gets poorer, & nature gets a column in a ledger.” #CarbonCon
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“…with many projects suffering close to 45% mortality rates in the first 5yrs. Some… as high as 90%.
Climate change is also increasing the frequency of wildfires, creating additional risks of carbon emissions from reforestation projects.” #CarbonCredits #CarbonCon
jacobin.com/2026/01/carb...
Market measures facilitate fraud #CarbonCon
Gulfstream LNG CEO Says Carbon Offsets, Cleaner LNG Are ‘Bullshit’
www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/g...
“Hence, if we want to use #DAC to limit overall warming to 1.5°C, while emitting enough to reach 2.5°C, DAC would need to use something like 30% of all electricity consumed over the next 80yrs.” #CarbonCon
Direct Air Capture
andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/d...
Surprise, surprise! Article 6 carbon credits face exactly the same problems as voluntary carbon credits #CarbonCon - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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500+ Lobbyists for 'False Promise of Carbon Capture' Accessed #COP30 #CCS #CarbonCon
www.commondreams.org/news/carbon-...
“You’re pretty much entrusting the bank robbers to guard the safe.” #CarbonCon
Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
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“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. We have assessed 25yrs of evidence & almost everything up until this point has failed.” #CarbonCon
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“We fear that vague specifications & lax controls will result in a lot of money being made without actually achieving the stated emissions reductions.” #CarbonCon
Germany’s €4.5 billion carbon offset fraud - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“When you look at the numbers for how much carbon #CCS will store, it’s basically nothing. & still CCS is used in every single political statement around the world as if it’s going to save us all.” #CarbonCon
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“The reality is that we urgently need to massively reduce emissions as quickly as possible, & offsets allow the companies or government buying the offsets to continue polluting.” #CarbonCon
The US Government’s carbon credit wish list - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Verra made no attempt to investigate whether the money from sales of #carbonoffsets was actually reaching the communities living in the project area. Spoiler alert: Most of the money did not reach the communities.” #CarbonCon
- @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“Vested interests tend to promote market models precisely because they can exert undue influence in markets. For businesses dependent on fossil fuels, delay is profitable…”
Market measures facilitate fraud #CDR #CCS #BECCS #CarbonOffsets #CarbonCon #NetZero
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“However, far from ‘buying time’, the climate cost of even simply ‘pursuing’ #CDR could be more than an extra 1°C in peak climate heating if, like #CCS, promises of CDR prolong the fossil economy but, also like CCS, largely fail to materialise.” #CarbonCon #PostCapitalism
Carbon & nature offsets cannot be relied on. #CarbonCon
How a £1.5billion ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The Science Based Targets Initiative should strive to keep the ‘science’ in ‘science based’. #CarbonOffsets have been exposed time & again as a delay tactic in the fight against climate change.” #CarbonCon
- @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“With respect to carbon credits in general… States have failed miserably to fulfil their obligations.” #CarbonCon
UN letter to the State Government of Sabah raises transparency & human rights concerns with the two million hectare Nature Conservation Agreement
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“Currently, most carbon-related mechanisms are clearly operating in a colonial way, risking ongoing & direct harm to Indigenous communities & the planet.” #CarbonCon
Carbon markets: a new form of colonialism for Indigenous Peoples?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“IKEA may not be buying carbon offsets, but it is relying on the false solution of carbon offsetting.” #CarbonCon
IKEA & New Zealand: “It’s like another kind of colonisation.” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“It should go without saying that carbon-sequestration projects… should not be assessed—let alone certified—by companies that stand to profit from them.” #CarbonCon
Dumping Biomass in the Ocean is Not a Climate Solution
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/p...
“The plan is to sell ‘sovereign carbon securities’—carbon credits, effectively, except they are structured like a corporate stock.”
What could go wrong? #CarbonCon
Is Bolivia’s $1.2 Billion Deal to Protect Its Forests a Climate Boon—or a False Solution?
insideclimatenews.org/news/0804202...
Pathways Carbon Capture Project Is Not Viable, Expert Warns #CCS #CarbonCon
www.desmog.com/2025/02/26/p...
“Every aspect of what is described as an independent verification process is ultimately conducted by financially self-interested parties in the regulatory vacuum of the voluntary carbon market.” #CarbonOffsetting #CarbonCredits #CarbonCon
- @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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#CarbonCredits #CarbonMarkets #CarbonOffsets #CarbonCon
Slave labour used to clear forests in the Maísa REDD+ project, Brazil - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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The wrong model, the wrong metrics, & the wrong people. Market measures facilitate fraud #CarbonCon
Carbon Omissions
theecologist.org/2025/jan/02/...
“…investigators concluded that oil companies had not only misled the public on climate change for decades, but also were continuing to misinform them about the industry’s preferred climate ‘solutions’—particularly #biofuels & #carboncapture.”
#CCS #CarbonOffsetting #CarbonCon
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