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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 06/10/2026

🚨 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 cookstove project behind them. bit.ly/4AVxgOM

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Civil society groups call for suspension of first-ever Article 6.4 carbon credits - Global Forest Coalition

More than 130 civil society organisations are calling on the UN’s Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism Supervisory Body to immediately suspend the first carbon credits issued under its new “high-integr...

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So we'll see a lot of talk about it, to keep the social licence to operate of harmful industries and data centres/AI, but imo the price of offset credits will never rise significantly, nor will biodversity credits ever generate significant revenues. 12

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

...the job is done. And making them actually work would make the credits far more expensive, which would get in the way of the overarching competitiveness and growth objectives. 11

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another interesting element imo is the fact that I don't see the political will to make these markets ever scale and actually function. As long as they occupy the public and media space, and thus give the illusion that the issue is being addressed without changing our unsustainable paradigms, 10

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One might question the sustainability claims of a #financialisation of forests and farmland however, and might do well to remember the impact of agricultural commodity derivatives speculation on the 2007/2008 food crisis. 9/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

bringing the expectation of additional revenues on top of the timber and crop revenues, and the expected land value appreciation. 8/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

governments expect food and water shortages within a few years (see UK's Joint Intelligence Committee report), forests and farmland are real assets and a good inflation hedge, and natural capital is the new ESG, 7/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and to further entrench to the false idea that it is possible to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity destruction and water pollution taking place elsewhere. The timing makes sense though, as forests and farmland are increasingly perceived as attractive investments: 6/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In practice there is very limited demand for voluntary CSR purchases, see the carbon offset space, so in practice this fund might enable institutional and retail investors to speculate on the value of forests, and possibly farmland tomorrow, 5/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

- local authorities committed to preserving their attractiveness, the resilience of their regions and the regeneration of their ecosystems; - savers who want to invest in these asset classes; - Regional Banks in their desire to (...) promote the economic vitality of the regions. 4/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

- companies that want to finance their projects, reduce their environmental footprint or secure their sustainable supplies; - investors looking for new asset classes with a sustainable investment objective - owners of natural assets who want to improve the resilience and value of their assets; 3/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While the focus for now is on forests, "from 2027, Crédit Agricole Capital Naturel will gradually expand its scope to other essential components of #NaturalCapital, including #water and #biodiversity." The arguments put forward are that the Capital Naturel initiative meets the growing needs of: 2/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

French bank Credit Agricole launches Crédit Agricole Capital Naturel. Crédit Agricole Capital Naturel will also call on the Amundi Arbora Nova fund, a fund structured around afforestation and reforestation. 1/9 presse.credit-agricole.com/credit-agric...

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since yesterday, “carbon neutral” or “climate neutral” claims based on #offsetting are banned in the EU 👏 Let's hope it will soon expand to #biodiversity no net loss / net gain claims based on offsets!

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How long are you staying in Paris David? Any plans to come visit Brussels? I'd love to buy you a few beers and discuss carbon, biodiversity credit markets and other shenanigans (my research topic)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Airlines lobby IATA not happy that EU carbon market will at last be extended to some international flights, claims that it will slow global decarbonisation 🤣, and would much prefer we continue with the useless CORSIA #carbon #offset market instead 🤣 Nice try IATA :) airlines.iata.org/2026/07/19/i...

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026

The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

and the word climate is mentioned only once to say that "we are not choosing between the climate and industry" i.e. we'll continue to pursue unlimited economic growth on a planet with limited resources 4/4

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

and trade (more free trade agreements). So climate change did not make it in the list of the 6 highest challenges, there is however a call to produce low carbon energy in Europe, 3/4

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

completing the single market (28th regime= mainly circumventing workers' rights), energy (producing low carbon energy in Europe, developing the grid, lowering electricity prices, modernising aka weakening the carbon market, a predictable carbon signal), AI (we need to produce and deploy) 2/4

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

VDL speech in front of the French business lobby: our 6 main challenges are competitiveness (we need to simplify aka deregulate and derisk), financing our economies (we need to shift more retail savings into equity markets, more venture capital & securitisation), 1/4 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We also translated our comicbook on biodiversity credits in Bahasa Indonesia. #PeoplesConservationSummit #DekolonisasiKonservasi 2/2 Brief: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... Comicbook: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u...

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As the Peoples' Conservation Summit will start tmrw, we published a short brief: Could biodiversity credits fund a significant part of Indonesia’s conservation policies in the future? And how credible is it to expect credits without offsets? #PCS2026 #KonservasiRakyat 1/2 PCS: pcs.iccas.or.id/en

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DECOLONIZATION OF CONSERVATION: Affirming People's Sovereignty Over Knowledge and Governance of Biodiversity in Indonesia

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Curbing excess speculation would greatly reduce price volatility, and be as or more effective imo as the price floor/corridor the authors suggest. 3/3

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

...with firms favoring green projects as prices cross the EUR 90–100 threshold, volatility severely deters it. High uncertainty about future prices creates a "wait-and-see" effect that completely offsets the positive impact of a massive carbon price increase." 2/3

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Report surveying 830 German manufacturing firms finds that curbing excess price volatility in the #ETS matters as much as having a high price. "While higher expected carbon prices strongly incentivize corporate action, 1/3 #ETSreview www.ifo.de/econpol/publ...

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Webinar Road to Peoples’ Conservation Summit 2026 Ketika Alam Jadi Angka: Membedah Biodiversity Credit dan Offset. Jumat, 21 Agustus 2026 ⏰ 15.30 – 17.00 WIB 📍 Zoom Meeting 🔗 Scan kode QR di atas untuk bergabung dalam webinar ini

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Most Radical Post Growth Text I Read This Year Came From Wall Street - And it will teach you how to build a financial portfolio fit for a post-growth future kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/the-most-r...

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The Most Radical Post Growth Text I Read This Year Came From Wall Street

And it will teach you how to build a financial portfolio fit for a post-growth future.

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

and from a return point of view (Chinese open weights AI models could threaten the future revenues of US AI companies by reducing the price of tokens) :) 5/5

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

and a recent study found that Big Oil’s use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI’s data centers), 4/5

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

from a climate and water security point of view (UN researchers also estimate that by 2030, data centres could be using enough water to meet the basic needs of all 1.3bn sub-Saharan Africans for a year, 3/5

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

...and our existing legal and constitutional protections are not fully equipped to counter this threat," and Anthropic has a partnership with Palantir since 2024), 2/5

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anthropic investors bet on $2tn valuation in record IPO in October. Subscribing to this IPO seems like such a great idea for democracy (Anthropic CEO has stated that "powerful AI in the wrong hands could be the ultimate tool of autocracy, 1/5 www.ft.com/content/840a...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026

NEW – Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025 ✍️ Written by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @evazabey.bsky.social @ronsteenblik.bsky.social Paul Elton & Prof Jessica Dempsey Read here: buff.ly/RFf8Nor

Countries that have identified all of their harmful subsidies (yellow); provided figures for some sectors (dark blue); begun the process, but not provided any numbers (medium blue); not begun the process (light blue); and not submitted a national report to the CBD (light grey). Credit: Carbon Brief analysis

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Qatar Airways has suspended a social media advertising campaign related to its service offering passengers the option to #offset carbon emissions after it was deemed to be misleading by the UK's advertising regulator 👏 travelgossip.co.uk/latestnews/t...

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Two airlines forced to remove ads over misleading environmental claims

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Radical and net zero in the same sentence 😂

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

- World’s bank money would arguably have been better used to address the root causes of climate change and biodiversity destruction, incl helping put pressure on government to phase out fossil fuels, cap plastic production, or incentivise dietary change. 9/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So, the World Bank and South Africa’s government are implicitly choosing to continue subsidizing massively harmful industries, instead of shifting part of the existing harmful subsidies to fund real action on climate change. 8/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

- Privatising South Africa’s conversation, whereas the money involved is tiny: The project is claimed to mobilise $25,000,000 of private capital. To put this figure in perspective, this is 0,006% of South Africa’s GDP, and 0,43% of its annual direct fossil fuel subsidies. 7/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

(Amazon is not the only one trying to greenwash its AI expansion with carbon removals see carbon-pulse.com/530401/?site...) 6/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

- In this specific case, this seems to be about greenwashing Amazon data centres: Amazon Web Services operates a large network of 900 data centres and plans a massive expansion in 2026 and beyond, its CEO describing AI as a “very unusual opportunity”. 5/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

...without too many civil protests. As an example, the civil aviation sector expects to TRIPLE its emissions by 2050, compared to 2015, ...while “offsetting” them. It’s the very definition of a licence to trash. 4/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The CRUs linked interest amount is “driven by the number of CRUs purchased by Amazon under pre-agreed terms with the project developer.” Our concerns with the project include: - Offsetting doesn’t aim @ curbing ghg emissions but at helping harmful industries keep their social licence to operate 3/9

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Green Finance Observatory @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The restoration project is about restoring 25,000 hectares of a plant called Spekboom. Investors forego half of the fixed return on a comparable bond, but can expect to earn more if the project succeeds: the expected annualized return is 5,078% if the project generates and sells CRUs as expected 2/9

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