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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. For the first time since 2007, Google said it is no longer a carbon neutral company.In the last one environmental report, the technology giant has marked a turnaround in its climate strategy, essentially for two reasons:the development of the artificial intelligence sector, highly energy intensive, That it cost to Google a 48% increase in emissions (+13% only between 2022 and 2023);the decision to abandon the practice of purchasing carbon credits to offset the emissions produced. To maintain the goal of climate neutrality by 2030, Google has decided to change its strategy and focus "on accelerating a series of solutions and partnerships for carbon emissions".This is an important turning point because it is the first time that a large company has renounced the compensation of emissions produced through the acquisition of carbon credits. Carbon offsetting is the di...

In Brazil, the police launched a large operation (called Operation Greenwashing), the largest of its kind ever built in the country, to dismantle "a criminal organization" that for over a decade allegedly sold carbon credits from illegally invaded areas for a total value of 34 million dollars (approximately 180 million reais).The operations are the result of an investigation lasting over a year which shows the links between REDD+ projects and a scam for the recycling of illegally obtained timber.At the center of the investigations are the Fortaleza Ituxi, Unitor and Evergreen project, all related to the Ituxi Group, one of the largest carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon.The group is chaired by Ricardo Stoppe, whose suspicious activities had already ended up at the center of a journalistic investigation.The credits sold by the group were purchased not only by various Brazilian companies, but also by some international ones such as Toshiba, Spotify and Boeing. Stoppe...

Ahmed Dalmook al Maktoum, the youngest of the Dubai royal family, seems to want to take over all of Africa.Blue Carbon, the company he leads, is financing projects which, on paper, should protect forests in exchange for carbon credits to be resold, but which in practice sound like one of the most large greenwashing operations. For example, the sheikh will be able to boast conservation rights over approximately 20% of the green areas of Zimbabwe and 10% of Liberia, but the agreements have affected various areas of the continent:to such an extent that the Emirates found themselves at manage 60 million acres of African forest.Numbers that have made Blue Carbon one of the largest and most critical carbon credit companies.Let's explain what it is. To reduce the polluting impact of their operations, many companies and governments around the world have decided to offset the carbon emissions produced financing projects elsewhere clean, sustainable.An exchange validated by the purchase of (at l...

A new one research revealed that carbon credits from reforestation projects they don't compensate most of the emissions released by industrial activities.An international group of scientists, in particular, examined 26 sites where so-called REDD+ projects to combat deforestation were implemented on three different continents.The main doubt, it emerged, is how developers calculate the impact of their projects, to the point that around 94% of the carbon credits deriving from these it would not represent a real mitigation of climate-changing emissions. REDD+ is short for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.The idea is that the "monetization" of threatened forests through the issuance of carbon credits helps to avoid further increase in global temperature.In turn, the sale of these credits should generate an income stream to reinvest in forest conservation, which advocates say is critical to protecting not only the carbon that biom...

The first results of COP29, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, do not seem to give much hope regarding a real possibility of change with respect to environmental policies.There are numerous partners of the event involved in the fossil energy sector, while the president of Azerbaijan (COP host country), Ilham Aliyev, himself defined oil and gas as a "gift from God".In this context, the first results of the Conference were an estimate of the investments necessary, by the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), for the financing of sustainable policies by 2030 and the achievement of a official agreement on the global carbon market under the auspices of the United Nations.The latter, however, constitutes a form of true neocolonialism, as it is based on the exploitation of the lands and resources belonging to local communities to allow large companies to continue polluting undisturbed. The adoption of a global carbon market has been scope completed thanks to the work...