Experts warn carbon credits undermine global efforts to limit warming

With world leaders set to gather in Brazil for COP30 in November, new analysis from an international team of climate policy ...
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Letter: Carbon credit scheme unlikely to move needle

The project of applying carbon taxes to airline travel and paying families a carbon tax dividend assumes that families will spend the money in a low- or no-carbon way. Money underlies all carbon ...
Mongabay

Forest campaign group renews charge that carbon credit verification schemes are flawed

A new assessment conducted by Rainforest Foundation UK raises fresh concerns about the validity of carbon offsetting schemes. The campaign group claims that all the leading carbon credit verification ...
Reuters

New carbon credit scheme targets 60 plants by 2030 for coal phaseout

SINGAPORE, May 7 (Reuters) - The Rockefeller Foundation aims to sign up 60 projects by 2030 to a new carbon finance scheme for phasing out coal-fired power in developing countries, it said on ...
The Conversation

3 reasons why removing grazing animals from Australia’s arid lands for carbon credits is a bad idea

David John Eldridge receives funding from the Hermon Slade Foundation Andrew Macintosh receives funding from the Australian Government and state governments. He is also a Director of the Paraway ...
New Scientist

Carbon-offsetting schemes may not actually prevent deforestation

Most carbon-offsetting programmes that support forest conservation efforts as a way to counteract contributions to global warming don’t significantly reduce deforestation, an analysis has found.
The Conversation

Industry push to earn carbon credits from Australia’s native forests would be a blow for nature and the climate

David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian Government, the Victorian Government, and the Australian Research Council. He is a Councillor with the Biodiversity Council and a member of Birds ...
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Ferries warn carbon credit scheme could lead to "additional tax on Islanders"

Isle of Wight ferry operators are calling on Government to make them exempt from a so-called carbon credit amid a warning it could lead to "an additional tax on Islanders". Wightlink estimates ...