#Offsets

Center for International Environmental Lawciel.org@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-15

Instead of #PhaseOutFossilFuels & reducing energy demand, the new German gov. is doubling down on dangerous distractions! 🇩🇪 aims to open the door to #CCS, #CarbonRemovals & #Offsets, jeopardizing the country’s transition to a climate safe future. www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/bl...

Will Germany go down the path ...

Poujol 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝗍 ✅poujolrost@mstdn.jp
2025-04-28

How Big Tech’s carbon offsets are threatening #Kenyans

youtube.com/watch?v=1Qkef6br10

> #US #tech #giants are spending millions to buy carbon #offsets in the Global #South. One project in #Kenya covers an area the size of Slovenia and promises to offs...

2025-03-13

"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."

"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change

Eric Maugendremaugendre@mas.to
2025-02-26

"Today one of the Commission’s flagship projects, the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ #CID is published. The deal breaks with past ambitions on #chemicals, and deepens the EU’s commitment to false solutions to the climate disaster. Some of the most polluting industries will receive billions in state aid and financing from EU funds, laws will be amended to suit their agenda."

by @corporateeurope: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02

#lobbying #Brussels #energy #offsets #Europe #EU #growth #transition #lobbies

Eric Maugendremaugendre@mas.to
2025-02-25

The 162 corporations and trade associations which declare EU lobby budgets of over €1 million annually, collectively declare at least €343 million per year.

Five-year growth: Since 2020, these corporate interests have declared nearly €86 million more, marking a one-third increase over five years.

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02 🧵

#Tech #Banking #Chemicals #lobbying #Brussels #energy #offsets #Europe #greenCapitalism #electricity #EU #growth #spillovers #transition #lobbies #openData #LobbyControl

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2025-02-20

Hegseth’s Proposed Pentagon “Budget Cuts” Seemingly Won’t Reduce Spending at All

(The Defense Department quickly reframed plans for an 8 percent annual reduction in military spending as “offsets.”)

Hegseth, in an internal memo, ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8% from the defense budget in each of the next five years,
-- and instructed officials to hand in their proposals by this coming Monday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), long a vocal proponent of cutting the military budget as it approaches $1 trillion a year,
agreed on social media that “when the Pentagon cannot complete an independent audit,
we should cut military spending by 8% a year over the next five years.”

⭐️That is not what the administration appears to have in mind.

While headlines in major media outlets characterized Hegseth’s memo as a striking call for #cuts ...

🔥Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Salesses described the proposal as a push for #offsets ...
⚠️that could be used to fund other military-related efforts favored by President Donald Trump,
including an “Iron Dome for America” that experts have ridiculed as a wasteful “fantasy.”

“The department will develop a list of potential #offsets that could be used to fund these priorities,
as well as to refocus the department on its core mission of deterring and winning wars,”
said Salesses.

“The offsets are targeted at 8% of the Biden administration’s FY26 budget,
totaling around $50 billion,
which will then be spent on programs aligned with President Trump’s priorities.”

The U.S. military budget for Fiscal Year 2025 is roughly $850 billion.
commondreams.org/news/hegseth-

Catherine Collingwood Estescollingwest@mstdn.social
2024-12-21

This historic victory will improve the lives of educators, first responders, postal workers and others who dedicate their lives to #PublicService in their communities. #SocialSecurity #offsets #penalties buff.ly/4fuO572

Selamatkan Hutan Hujanhutanhujan
2024-11-18

COP 16 - Waktu Terbuang

Negara-negara di dunia sepertinya tidak mengerti arti pencegahan segera kepunahan masal dan .
Mengumpulkan dana dengan konsep dan sertifikat berisiko tinggi!
Lihat petisi " tak boleh jadi komoditas".

Hal positif yang telah diputuskan di Cali: telah membentuk sebuah komite yang menjamin kepastian hak-hak dan kepentingan ()

hutanhujan.org/updates/12885/w

Eric Maugendremaugendre@mas.to
2024-11-13
Eric Maugendremaugendre@mas.to
2024-11-12

"Selling carbon offsets is deeply misguided. Offsets are unlikely to generate funds at the scale needed, and any offset transactions would negate the climate benefits from shutting down coal plants"

#ReclaimFinance: reclaimfinance.org/site/en/202

#credits #abatments #coal #CTC #COP29 #emissions #transition #energyTransition #offsets #energy #carbonOffsets #plants #coalPlants #carbon #GHG

2024-11-11

The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in

"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>

smh.com.au/environment/conserv ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance

2024-11-01

#Qantas, #Virgin, #Netflix and #Canva among 1,200 major companies that paid no income #tax in #Australia in 2022-23. ATO finds 31% of large #businesses reported nil tax paid as many companies deducted losses and used #offsets to dial their bills down to #zero: theguardian.com/australia-news

Eric Maugendremaugendre@mas.to
2024-10-28

"The need for decarbonisation poses an existential threat to the #oilAndGas industry, which is why they have created multiple ‘escape hatches’ to continue fossil fuel burning, including techno-fixes like CCUS and carbon removals. […] Europe is showering public money and policy support on these dangerous distractions designed to keep Big Oil and Gas in business."
corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonC

#lobbying #ICM #energy #offsets #Europe #greenCapitalism #EU #carbon #growth #spillovers #transition #lobbies

Eric Maugendremaugendre@mas.to
2024-09-26

From the Bruegel thinktank: "In the absence of good public data, special interests find it much easier to lobby for suboptimal approaches. The EU has a substantial problem in this respect, as energy data is not available currently in a timely way or at the level of granularity, reliability and consistency needed for informed policymaking."
bruegel.org/memo/memo-commissi

#energy #offsets #Europe #greenCapitalism #electricity #grid #EU #renewables #growth #spillovers #transition #demand #lobbies #data

2024-09-25

A motorway built through an endangered koala habitat

Pictures "show isolated examples of dead and injured koalas found around the Gold Coast after prime habitat was bulldozed for a new multi-billion dollar highway. 280 koalas receive medical care."

"Koalas wearing blue tracking collars have been found entangled in a soccer net, mauled by a dog, and lost in suburbia."
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au.news.yahoo.com/photos-revea
#Koalas #roads #highway #cars #dogs #suburbia #GoldCoast #sprawl #harm #offsets #biodiversity #destruction #GlenifferRoad #wildlife #tagging #entanglement #Australia

Alan Rycroft 🇨🇦alanrycroft@mastodon.world
2024-09-05

Logging is the third highest carbon emitter in Canada. It should be measured that way, a new report says

UN experts and environmental groups continue to call on Canada to report true climate cost of logging

cbc.ca/news/science/logging-em

#logging #carbon #emissions #offsets #accounting #mislead #climate #cdnpoli #wildfire

2024-07-16

NSW government says state’s biodiversity ‘in crisis’ as it pledges first steps to reverse decline
"Government will also overhaul state laws after Guardian Australia uncovered serious problems with biodiversity offsets scheme."

"Henry’s review found the state’s environment laws would not succeed without substantial changes and warned half of the species under threat in NSW were on course to become extinct within the next 100 years"

End native forest logging and land clearing now!
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theguardian.com/australia-news
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1earthmedia.com/minns-responds
#Biodiversity #conservation #restoration #ecosystems #destruction #NSWlogging #offsets #LandClearing #NaturePositive #transparency #NSW #law #legislation #extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #EndNativeForestLogging

2024-07-02

Australia’s system of biodiversity offsets

"A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds."

"A review of some of the areas chosen for nature restoration as part of Australia’s biodiversity offset system has found a third are in worse condition than before, prompting fresh warnings that the scheme is increasing the risk of animals going extinct."

"Biodiversity offsetting is a policy used around Australia. The system allows developers to compensate for the environmental damage they cause in one area by pledging work to deliver an equivalent or greater benefit in another."

"The system was allowing places and species to be “continually chipped away at until there is nothing left” Martine Lappan, Australian Conservation Foundation investigator."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#BiodiversityCrisis #biodiversity #offsets #biodiversity #laws #conservation #failure #NaturePositive #koalas #wildlife #extinction makers #Australia

"Offset Reset - Raising the Bar for Ecosystem-Based Offsets and Credits" Check out this workshop tomorrow as part of the Society for Conservation Biology workshop if you are in Vancouver. Thanks to Kai and Ecosphere for inviting me to participate. #GreenSky #Offsets #Carbon

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