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Matthew Walley's eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the canopy, a sense of unease lingers. Their use of the land is being threatened, and they have organised to resist the possibility of losing their livelihood. In the past year, the Liberian government has agreed to sell about 10 per cent of the West African country’s land - equivalent to 10,931 square kilometres - to Dubai-based company Blue Carbon to preserve forests that might otherwise be logged and used for farming, the p...
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MEPs and government negotiators agreed a provisional text of the new Carbon Removals Certification Framework (CRCF) in the early hours of Tuesday (20 February) after protracted back-room talks in Brussels. “It will foster private investment and develop the voluntary carbon markets while respecting climate integrity and preventing greenwashing,” said Lidia Pereira (Portugal/EPP), who headed the European Parliament’s team. Under the deal, to qualify as a permanent carbon removal, sequestered CO2 must be disposed of in a way that is presumed to keep it out of the atmosphere for at least several c...
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A livestock farm in Australia that won plaudits for being carbon neutral is no longer able to offset its emissions. Jigsaw Farms in south-western Victoria was well ahead of the curve at countering the hefty climate impact of cattle farming, boasting its carbon neutral status as early as 2011. But a new report tracking the family farm’s climate impact suggests it tipped into the red in 2017, and has since been emitting more greenhouse gas emissions than it can sequester. Mark Wootton and Eve Kantor’s farm, 250 km west of Melbourne, hosts a fine wool merino operation with around 20,000 ewes and ...
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MEPs are set to back severe limits on the use of carbon offsetting arrangements this week, as they step up an EU war on greenwashing. The European Parliament’s environment and internal market committees will on Wednesday (14 February) vote on a proposed Green Claims Directive, setting out exactly how companies should back ecological promises. A compromise deal between the main political groups, seen by Euronews, would make it much harder for companies to make ‘net-zero’ pledges without specifying in detail how they intend to get there. Voluntary carbon offsets, where companies balance their ow...
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The carbon finance community recently welcomed the launch of a new code of practice to rebuild trust in “high-integrity” carbon credits, designed to help governments and businesses (or even individuals) accelerate their transition to ‘net zero’ emissions. Released by the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), this additional guidance enables buyers to make claims more credibly about their use of high-quality carbon credits. Simultaneously, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) is addressing the supply of high-quality carbon credits by setting rigorous thr...
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This year’s Super Bowl is almost upon us and, alongside the excitement surrounding the sport - and woman of the moment, Taylor Swift - there are concerns the event could be devastating for the environment. Set to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, it’s been confirmed that at least 475 parking spaces for private jets are already full up with celebrities and VIPs flying in from across the US - and the globe. This week, Federal Aviation Administration officials announced that the four airports immediately surrounding Las Vegas had already reached capacity for private planes some weeks ago. A...
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Taylor Swift is threatening legal action against a student tracking her private jet. The pop star’s lawyers hit Jack Sweeney, a 22-year-old studying information technology at the University of Central Florida, with a cease-and-desist letter in December. Sweeney has made a name for himself by using public data and social media to track the private jets of billionaires, politicians and other celebrities - leading to one very public dust-up with Elon Musk in 2022. In a letter shared by Sweeney with the Associated Press (AP), Swift’s attorneys blame his automated tracking of her private jet for ti...
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Hollywood’s in hot water. While many of its biggest stars have lent their voices and faces to the fight against climate change, others have become the poster children for wasteful living and unregulated emissions. For years running, A-listers have been topping the naughty lists for private jet usage, going head-to-head with oligarchs and oil tycoons. But now, celebrities have found a solution to contain the environmental (and PR) damage: buying credits to offset their emissions. As offsetting continues to gain traction, is it the right path to a greener world? Or a way to greenwash climate sin...
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