The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which is supposed to offset greenhouse gases emitted in the developed world by selling carbon credits from elsewhere, has been contaminated by gross incompetence, rule-breaking and possible fraud by companies in the developing world, according to UN paperwork, an unpublished expert report and alarming feedback from projects on the ground.ย
The worldโs largest outdoor advertising company warned city councillors of โfar-reaching consequencesโ hours before the landmark vote.
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. Itโs now backing Carbon Measuresโ accounting scheme, which moves pollution โliabilitiesโ to buyersโ books.
For some separatists, ignoring Indigenous rights is not only a side effect of an independent Alberta, but an explicit goal.
Democratic innovation as a pathway for revitalising global climate action.
