Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?

Can Putting a Price on Africa’s Biodiversity Save It?

Can Putting a Price on Africa’s Biodiversity Save It? (Maria) The author writes, “In the Valley of the Nile, since long before the days of pharaohs, Egyptian farmers have relied on annual floods to fertilize soil and sustain their civilization. Egypt’s rulers came to understand that the Nile depends on the Highlands of Ethiopia, which supply at least 80% of the water that flows into the Mediterranean. But few realize that even today, this rainfa…

Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?

Brazil is set to unveil an ambitious international plan that would provide up to $4 billion a year to countries that protect their tropical forests. Proponents see it as a potential game-changer for forest conservation, but some ecologists and economists are raising concerns.

Environmental News Network - Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?

It could be the last and best chance to save the world’s tropical forests. As international aid budgets for conservation crash and carbon offset schemes for protecting forests are widely discredited, Brazil is about to unveil an ambitious plan that would triple current finance for saving forests worldwide by channeling profits from international trade in government bonds.

Brazilian lithium pitched as ‘carbon neutral’ relied on offset project linked to deforestation

Sigma Lithium often says that its mining model in Brazil is raising the quality of the global lithium business. The Canadian company “is at the forefront of environmental and social sustainability in the electric vehicle battery materials supply chain”, according to its press releases. Sigma first named its flagship product, which it extracts in the north of Minas Gerais state, “triple zero green lithium”. More recently, it used the name “quintu…