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UK: The billionaires and aristocrats cashing in on tree-planting schemes
- The i Paper
- 19 January 2025
As millions in public money flows towards the planting of trees, some are also raising concerns about the environmental credentials of many schemes.
Brazil startup partners with agro firm to reforest degraded Amazon land
- Reuters
- 13 January 2025
Private equity-backed reforestation startup re.green has signed a partnership with Agro Penido to restore 600 hectares of land owned by the Brazilian agribusiness firm with native species from the Amazon rainforest
Idemitsu to begin trial of non-edible oilseed crop for aviation fuel
- Reuters
- 10 January 2025
Japan's No.2 crude oil refiner, Idemitsu Kosan, will begin a trial plantation of the non-edible oilseed tree crop Pongamia in Australia to assess its potential as a feedstock for aviation fuel, in cooperation with the US company Terviva.
Carbon-capture promises require an unrealistic land grab
- Bloomberg
- 16 December 2024
Net-zero pledges from 140 countries would require turning territory the size of the US into a giant greenhouse-gas sponge and generate a massive land grab that will go on for decades.
En Afrique, un risque d’accaparement des terres derrière la course aux crédits-carbone
- Le Monde
- 11 December 2024
L’Afrique est-elle à la veille d’un nouveau cycle d’accaparement des terres, non pas pour sécuriser les approvisionnements alimentaires de pays tiers, comme à la fin des années 2000, mais pour produire les crédits-carbone destinés à compenser les émissions des gros pays pollueurs ou celles des entreprises ayant pris pour engagement d’atteindre la neutralité carbone d’ici à 2050 ?
Gli alberi della discordia
- IRPI
- 11 December 2024
Dall'Emilia-Romagna fino in Madagascar per i crediti di carbonio. Storia del progetto da 6.700 ettari di Tozzi Green, accusata dalla comunità di aver rubato la terra e distrutto l'economia locale
The trees of discord: from Emilia Romagna to Madagascar for carbon credits
- LeDéfi.Mg
- 11 December 2024
What can possibly be wrong about planting trees? This investigation digs deeper into a conflict unfolding in southern Madagascar, between the local community and an Italian multinational. As similar green projects multiply, this case highlights a critical challenge.
New Zealand outlines rules to curb large-scale carbon farming
- Bloomberg
- 04 December 2024
New Zealand has outlined new rules aimed at slowing the rate at which farmland is being converted into forestry for carbon credits.
Eni signs agreement in Côte d'Ivoire to protect and restore 14 forests in a total area of 155,000 hectares
- ENI
- 28 November 2024
Project includes the planting of 12 million trees on 130,000 hectares of "abandoned and degraded areas" to offset emissions by the Italian energy company.
Carbon Assets unveils $144m Jigawa wetland project
- Leadership
- 27 November 2024
Carbon Assets Nigeria Limited has signed an MOU with Jigawa State for a project that will span 32,000 hectares, plant over 4 million trees, and generate $48 million-$144 million in revenue from the sale of carbon credits.
New myths and new colonial land grabs
- ActionAid USA
- 23 November 2024
We must recognize and stop the growing takeover of forest, grassland, and farmland by powerful financial actors, which is being perpetrated in the name of new myths of false solutions to climate change.
Harvard set up worthless carbon offsetting scheme that sold millions of junk credits
- TBIJ
- 20 November 2024
After establishing the scheme in 2012 on land it bought in Uruguay, Harvard sold the land across two deals in 2017 and 2019 worth a combined $450m. But the project is still active today and has sold enough credits to have supposedly offset over 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.