New report shows that more than 20% of palm oil plantations operating illegally in the Indonesian forest area are operated by RSPO-certified companies, including some of the industry’s biggest names such as Wilmar, Musim Mas and Golden Agri-Resources. eia-international.org/blog/palm-oi...

New GeoMon #geoengineering tech update, covering industrial algae & seaweed cultivation for carbon capture, use and storage #CCUS, a range of approaches aiming to sequester carbon by manufacturing products from farmed algae. But don't believe the hype!

www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/carbon-captu...

"vast tracts of natural forest across several regions in Papua continue to be destroyed and cleared by corporate heavy machinery escorted by military personnel." pusaka.or.id/en/news/pres...

As the UN holds meetings this week on its new international carbon market mechanism, @influencemap.bsky.social researcher Sofia Shehana Basheer looks at how industry lobbying is influencing its approach to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies.

www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/amid-lobbyin...

📄 Read the full press release: globalforestcoalition.org/civil-societ...

🚨📰BREAKING: UK gov rejects Drax’s AI Growth Zone bid for tree-burning data centre

🏆A WIN for national/local/student campaigns! We worked with students, supporters, public, wrote to over 100 data companies, co-led a 106 orgs Open Letter, targeted local MPs + AI Minister.

landclimate.org/drax-aigz/

Record breaking areas of Brazil’s land goes up in flames. & Earth Innovation Institute proposes the false solution of selling carbon credits to the oil & gas industry - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/record-bre...

A recent investigation by Dutch TV station Zembla looks into where RWE is sourcing its biomass for so-called green energy in the Netherlands.

RWE imports 200,000 tonnes of biomass from Malaysia every year.

Some of this comes from primary rainforest.

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/rwes-bioma...

🚨 130+ organisations call on the UN’s Article 6.4 Supervisory Body to suspend the first carbon credits issued under its new “high-integrity” carbon market—and independently investigate the controversial Myanmar biomass cookstove project behind them.
bit.ly/4AVxgOM

Have your voice heard!

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And we’re taking their demands directly to the EU Commissioner for Environment!

Let’s make our message impossible to ignore.

Sign the petition before it closes on 20 October:
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Sign the call for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering: www.solargeoeng.org/take-action/

New Geoengineering Monitor guest article!
Burying biomass: Neocolonial resource exploitation behind “carbon dioxide removal” projects in Namibia

Dubbed “Europe’s largest biomass storage deal”, the project removes and buries Namibian bushwood to generate carbon offsets.

Read here: bit.ly/4z1dLSY

New article by us about a hugely problematic #CDR #biomass carbon offsets project in Namibia:

As the California Air Resources Board meets today to discuss rules for a “Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization and Storage Program” a new report by @biofuelwatch.bsky.social exposes how California is doubling down on speculative carbon removal instead of cutting emissions at source.

Why must it always be about planting trees, when they managed just fine for 100s of millions of years before people came along? Just let them seed out.

Yes, planting does have a role, but so often the underlying subtext is continued human domination of nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...