Mastodawn

Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵 #carbon #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #policySky

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Eric Maugendre about carbon 3d ago

Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵

#assets #assetStranding #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits #carbon

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Eric Maugendre about carbon 3d ago

"The cause of climate change is the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels. But instead of focusing on the fundamental root cause, we’ve been focused on the interim product, emissions.
"But what I show in the book is that managing tons is an extremely narrow and technical understanding of the problem of climate change."

Jessica Green: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-big-flaw-in-climate-policy-were-trying-to-solve-the-wrong-problem/

#assets #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits

The big flaw in climate policy: We’re trying to solve the wrong problem

Jessica Green, author of ‘Existential Politics,’ argues that the international community’s focus on measuring emissions helped delay real action on climate change.

Yale Climate Connections

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gusseting Apr 19

Megan Evans, Crikey:

"The forests that should be regenerating in projects covering 42 million hectares — an area almost twice the size of Victoria — are simply not appearing at the rate they are being credited for, and most of these HIR projects are wildly non-compliant."
"The ‘boom-and-bust’ nature of rangelands makes them ill-suited to nature-based solutions involving carbon sequestration in vegetation and soils."
#AusPol #CarbonCredits #Australia

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/06/labor-gas-woodside-north-west-shelf-dodgy-carbon-credits-scheme/

Cheap carbon credits from dodgy projects keep Labor’s gas-fired future alive

The Venn diagram of arguments used to delay action on climate change and defend carbon markets is rapidly becoming a circle.

Crikey

gusseting Apr 19

How that "good policy working well" according to Chris Bowen is working out for Australia:

Megan Evans, Crikey** (below)
420000km2 = Australia's land for carbon credits = 6 Tasmanias

ABC Australia:
19000km2 = global solar = a third of Tasmania

Fossil fuel companies are creating and investing in their own carbon credits eg: Woodside/Chevron. Woodside owns 72 properties in NSW to offset.
#Australia #CarbonCredits #AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/19/australia-emissions-increasing-coalmines-climate-policy-analysis

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse

The Guardian

Fred Nurk Apr 19

REAL ZERO: you do it without relying on carbon offsets. - Shanta Barley, Fortescue/FMG AFR: "FMG = One of the country‘s biggest polluters, with 2.64M tonnes of scope 1 emissions, offset with an expected 240000 carbon credits worth 8.5M." #fortescue #AndrewForrest #CarbonCredits #Australia

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t7ijjzegut7zpgsdai7yycn6/post/3mjsmjbyl6c2i

Yonhap Infomax News Apr 14

LG Electronics pursues Gold Standard certification for carbon reduction project using high-efficiency heat pumps, aiming to convert fossil fuel heating systems to electric heat pumps and monetize credits in voluntary carbon markets while targeting 54.6% emissions reduction by 2030 compared to 2017 levels
#YonhapInfomax #LGElectronics #HeatPumps #CarbonCredits #GoldStandard #GreenhouseGasReduction #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=115326

Mike McCaffrey Apr 9

So glad we've figured out how to rebrand deforestation as carbon removal.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/carbon-removal-wildfire-prevention-jpmorgan

#ClimateChange #CarbonCredits

Exclusive: JPMorgan strikes carbon removal deal that doubles as wildfire prevention

The purchase signals that the carbon removal industry is pushing ahead despite policy setbacks.

Axios

Carbelim Apr 3

How Carbon Capture and ESG Drive Net Zero Emissions and Carbon Credit Opportunities

Content:
Can businesses achieve net zero emissions while creating new revenue streams?

With carbon capture technology and ESG strategies, the answer is yes.

Organizations are now turning emissions into value through carbon credits, while improving sustainability performance and meeting global climate goals.

#NetZero #CarbonCredits #CarbonCapture #ESG #ClimateTech #Sustainability