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11 July 2024
BP venture sells carbon offsets by ‘saving’ trees that aren’t in danger
Finite Carbon runs the largest forest offsetting projects in the US. Analysis suggests they aren’t doing what they claim
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28 June 2024
‘Plug and abandon’
Is the oil company that polluted Poole Harbour now risking disaster in the North Sea?
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29 May 2024
‘Saviour of carbon markets’ faces questions over African land rights
Carbon Done Right says it has secured 57,000 hectares for offsetting—but no leases have been registered
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29 January 2024
As climate change wrecks homes, human traffickers profit
Sierra Leone’s poorest communities have long been prey to human traffickers. Climate change is making things worse.
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7 December 2023
Trojan Horsepower
Formula 1 and the Saudi oil lobby: a tie-up between petrolheads and petrodollars is more than just an exercise in ‘soft power’
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13 November 2023
‘Get Out of Jail Free’
How plastics offsetting is giving industry a licence to pollute
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9 October 2023
‘Blueprint for disaster’
An ambitious plan to re-engineer the carbon market could play havoc with net zero goals and raises questions about human rights
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13 July 2023
Revolt of the South Pole penguins
Carbon offsetting’s ‘unicorn’ wants to be an ultra-ethical social enterprise. Behind the scenes its deals with oil giants and authoritarian rulers are stirring dissent
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31 May 2023
‘This is plunder’: Illegal quarries threaten one of Africa’s fastest vanishing forests
Sierra Leone is on the climate change frontline. Its defences are on sale to the highest bidder
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28 April 2023
Eni chased ‘profits at any cost’ to fuel Pakistan energy crisis
Eni cited supply issues to divert gas shipments from Pakistan—and made half a billion dollars selling the fuel elsewhere, leaving the crisis-hit country burning coal instead
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20 January 2023
‘They came at night’: Armed men at Disney forest project razed farmers’ homes
Coffee growers say Peru authorities demolished houses on a conservation site generating millions of dollars in carbon credits for US entertainment giant
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