A new report carried out by Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative arm and The Guardian “found that although many forest projects were doing valuable conservation work, the credits that they generated by preventing environmental destruction appear to be based on a flawed and much-criticised system, even though these credits were being used to back up claims of “carbon-neutral flying” and net-zero commitments.”
Carbon Offsets: A New Form of Colonialism
In this article in the Swedish newspaper @dagens_nyheter , David Kureeba, Officer of Forests and Biodiversity at the environmental organization NAPE in Uganda, talks about an important angle of the already flawed idea of “carbon offsets” - carbon offsets as a new form of colonialism, a “carbon colonialism” or “climate colonialism”.