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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hi Emma, yes of course, I've just followed you. Feel free to DM me

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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 13/04/2025

The UN’s shipping body has agreed to charge shipowners who don’t cut their emissions intensity by 30% by 2035. The $380/tonne penalty will fund green fuels, port upgrades & a just transition for maritime workers.

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Governments agree green shipping targets and fees for missing them

Ship owners who fail to reduce emissions intensity 30% by 2035 will have to pay into a "net zero fund" to clean up shipping through green fuels Governments set new targets to cut emissions from the…

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The AI rush will fuel demand for gas and coal to power data centres. The IEA also says that associated emissions *could* be more than offset by the positive impact of AI adoption. But that is hypothetical in contrast with the real emissions generated www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/10/p...

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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 25/03/2025

NEW: Carbon credit auditors suspended for failures in sham rice-farming offsets Verra has taken unprecedented action against four certification bodies that failed to spot integrity issues with the projects. But worthless credits still need to be compensated.

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Carbon credit auditors suspended in sham rice-farming offsets

Verra suspended four carbon credit certification bodies that failed to spot integrity issues with rice-farming offset projects

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Close to $500m a year in grant-based climate funding risk disappearing under Trump's attack of USAID. As a senior humanitarian official told me, "anything that talks even marginally about climate change doesn’t have a future" with this administration. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/05/n...

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Climate projects face existential threat after Trump halts aid

The Trump administration's attack on USAID puts at risk close to $500 million a year in aid for climate projects in developing countries

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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 31/01/2025

Shell, linked to nearly 2M sham carbon credits, avoids paying compensation Shell backed methane-cutting offset projects in China—but they failed to reduce emissions as claimed. The projects were axed by Verra, the world's largest registry. As yet, Verra has taken no action against Shell.

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Shell dodges paying compensation for sham carbon credits in China

Shell exited the failed carbon credits projects in China after Verra asked for redress, legal experts argue it should be held responsible

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Laurie van der Burg at @oilchange.bsky.social said this shows, yet again, we really cannot trust the industry to make sure that those carbon credits are actually reducing emissions, and, instead, we should force them to curtail their fossil fuel production and sales.

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The offsets should have cut methane emissions in rice paddies across eastern China. But local authorities meant to have played a key role in the schemes denied their involvement, while rice farmers contradicted claims made by the project developers. Our story with @dialogueearth.bsky.social

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Breaking my year-long hiatus here with my latest Investigation on Shell's greenwashing efforts. The firm sold "carbon neutral" LNG using, in part, sham Chinese carbon credits that failed to cut emissions and may have not existed at all on the ground. www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...

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Shell greenwashed gas using "phantom" carbon credits

Shell delivered "carbon neutral" gas using "phantom" carbon offsets from Chinese rice paddies, questioned for not carrying out any activities

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

“No one can say which kind of insects or fake meat you have to eat, which kind of injections you have to get. A libertarian state is very important.” Sure *that's* why Samuele Landi lives on a barge in international waters, not the two fraud convictions against him

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Italian fugitive is advising Emirati start-up Blue Carbon

Samuele Landi is an Italian fugitive with fraud charges. That was no problem for the UAE firm doing forest carbon credit deals across Africa.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/11/2023

The UAE has just been rapidly hoovering up land so it can generate carbon offsets to greenwash its fossil fuel expansion. They are being advised by an Italian fugitive...... Absolute bombshell story by @mcivillini.bsky.social @climatehome.bsky.social www.climatechangenews.com/2023/11/23/m...

Living on a floating island off the Gulf, Samuele Landi advises a little-known company with big plans to shake up the carbon offsetting market.

Blue Carbon plans to take over forested areas the size of the United Kingdom and sell carbon credits from their conservation under a mechanism established by the UN. The UAE firm, chaired by a member of Dubai’s royal family, has been on a deal-making spree with African governments to make that happen.

The 58-year-old Italian is no forestry expert, but – he says – he was tapped by the company right after its launch a year ago because of his decades-long technology experience. In Dubai, Landi is known as the owner of a cybersecurity firm devising fully encrypted phones.

In his native country, Landi is a wanted man. He was convicted in two separate trials for a bankruptcy fraud that sank one of Italy’s largest telecommunications companies and left over 2,200 people without a job nearly 15 years ago.

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

PUBLIC FINANCE: End international support for fossil fuels by end of 2022. What's happening: 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇸🇪🇳🇿🇫🇮🇩🇰 have respected pledge, shifting an estimated $5.7 bn a year out of fossil fuels, according to Oil Change Intl. 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇩🇪 have funded O&G after the deadline, accused of breaking promise.

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

FOREST PLEDGE: end deforestation by 2030. What's happening: countries way off track. Deforestation up 4% last year. 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇧🇷 are bright spots. Big problem, as always, is $$$. "What we need is not finance for today or tomorrow, it’s finance for yesterday" says Ghana's Roselyn Fosuah Adjei.

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

METHANE PLEDGE: reduce human-made CH4 by 30% by 2030. What's happening: Methane levels in the atmosphere keep rising fast. O&G sector still doing little despite record profits. New regulations in 🇺🇸🇳🇬🇪🇺(soon)

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Matteo Civillini @mcivillini.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Cop26 saw pledges galore. Big promises on forest protection, methane reduction and sustainable finance. Two years on, I've taken an in-depth look at how they are holding up. www.climatechangenews.com/2023/11/03/f...

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