Climate

It's incredibly important to understand about the voluntary carbon market that CO2 projects have a huge responsibility to "do no harm". Stories like this (there's 2 sides to it for sure) are not uncommon... 1/x

It's incredibly important to understand about the voluntary carbon market that CO2 projects have a huge responsibility to "do no harm". Stories like this (there's 2 sides to it for sure) are not uncommon... 1/x

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/28/cambodia-carbon-offsetting-project-violates-indigenous-groups-rights

Planet, punk rock, penguins - and foxes, foxes are cool, too! 

... so if you invest, support or fund these projects, that's 
a) great spirit, very pro-planet motivation, thank you! 
b) a responsibility for you to put effort into looking what you support. 

CO2 credits are not a commodity, despite it's misleading common denomination. 2/x

Carbon Credits are not a blind investment vehicle. If treated like that it triggers a cost-cutting race to the bottom, which will be sponsored by the planets weakest communities. 

If you're looking for guilt-free gamble, allowance / capntrade-markets are for you, large returns there on the backs of regulated molochs

also often-cited "credit quality" ensured by quasi-magical "DMRV" (DMRV is a thing, it's there, it's growing, it's super-important, it's delivering way below what sales people promise you) is not a simple tick or one letter rating. 

Be intentional, find out what you want to support and for what reasons 3/x