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Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing.”

The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating drought conditions.

The investment with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) - one of the world's largest timberland investment management organizations - focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.

Google will buy 50,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits by 2030 from Mombak, which purchases degraded land from farmers and ranchers or partners with them to replant native species in the Amazon rainforest

Offset8 and iRise’s Climate and Community Transformation Program intends to restore 6,000 hectares of degraded land in Malawi by planting 6 million trees.

The agreement will cover ecosystem restoration of up to 47,000 hectares of tropical rainforest in the state of Campeche, in the Calakmul region of southeastern Mexico

Farmland LP announces an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund in Farmland LP’s Vital Farmland III LLC, which will develop Soil Carbon Credits on its 18,500-acre farm portfolio in the US.

The United Arab Emirates-based Blue Forest plans to start planting 200 million mangrove trees in Mozambique in a concession twice the size of Singapore in November.

Conservation Resource Partners announced today the closing of its inaugural North American farmland private equity fund. with investment from institutional as well as high net worth investors, from both North America and Europe.

Silva Capital invests in agricultural land to develop large-scale carbon sequestration projects by reforesting cleared areas, while ensuring the land remains productive for farming.

The Gulf’s dispossession of African land for carbon offset projects is key to its efforts to delay, obfuscate and obstruct addressing climate change in meaningful ways.

Agropalma em parceria com Biofílica anunciam projeto de REDD+, certificado pela Verra, envolvendo mais de 50 mil hectares no Pará. Mais de13 mil ha são sobre florestas nativas para evitar o desmatamento e outra parte de plantio industrial de palma sobre áreas já desmatadas, como pastagens. Segundo as empresas, seriam sequestrados mais de 6 ton. de CO2 equivalente por hectare de palma.