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Smoke from a factory chimney.

Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?

Ian Morse 4 Nov 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022
A rice farmer harvesting in rice fields.

There is not enough land to meet many of the world’s climate pledges, says new study

Sandra Cuffe 1 Nov 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

In new climate deal, Norway will pay Indonesia $56 million for drop in deforestation, emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2022
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Marina Martinez 12 Oct 2022
Goat herders along a road in Muzarabani

Australian oil and gas firm Invictus awarded carbon offset project in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2022

Africa wants its climate money. Will rich countries pay?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Sep 2022
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022
Intact tropical forests contain huge amounts of carbon. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Can we build a carbon market that values nature and rewards local stewardship? (commentary)

Rod Taylor, Kavita Prakash-Mani, Giulia Carbone 15 Sep 2022

Even without human-driven deforestation, climate change threatens some forests

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2022
Loggers cut down a tree with a chainsaw.

Australian miner threatens lawsuit against PNG for scrapping carbon scheme

Rachel Donald 15 Aug 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022

BP exploited Mexican communities hoping to benefit from carbon credits: report

Maxwell Radwin 7 Jul 2022

Planned coal plants fizzle as Japan ends financing in Indonesia, Bangladesh

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jun 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022

For companies shopping for quality carbon credits, a new guide offers help

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jun 2022
Botanist Keith Steunenberg stands next to a thicket.

Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?

Anna Weekes 7 Jun 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022
Gold mine in South Kivu, Congo. Image courtesy of the Sasha Lezhnev Enough Project.

Results of mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers

Didier Makal 19 May 2022
Coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Banks bet big on coal in Indonesia, bucking global shift away from fossil fuel

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2022

“Indigenous people are fighting to protect a natural equilibrium”: Q&A with Patricia Gualinga

Astrid Arellano 6 May 2022

Funding, titling project for Indigenous-led organizations launched

Laurel Sutherland 25 Apr 2022

International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022
Logging Camp on Fergusson Island, PNG.

PNG suspends new carbon deals, scrambles to write rules for the schemes

Rachel Donald 4 Apr 2022
Coal mining in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s gasification plans could be costly for budget and environment

Nithin Coca 30 Mar 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

Are ‘nature based solutions’ the best fix for climate change?

Mike Gaworecki 9 Mar 2022

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