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Non-profit news agencies Mongabay and the New Humanitarian published a joint report on Wednesday that debunked the United Nations’ extravagant claims of “climate neutrality.”What the U.N. is actually doing, according to the report, is buying millions of dollars worth of “carbon credits” to “offset” its substantial emissions. Some of the projects that are supposedly “offsetting” the U.N.’s emissions are actually damaging the environment — or even the health of human beings.

 Carbon credits” are basically a shell game in which carbon emitters buy “permits” to spew more carbon dioxide from industries supposedly reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Environmental regulations have turned the carbon credit market into a grotesque billion-dollar “industry” that does not actually produce anything — it merely shuffles paperwork so that agencies and corporations can claim they are “carbon neutral” even though they still have prodigious emissions.Some climate activists are growing a bit skeptical of the carbon credit industry, which theoretically helps cleanse the atmosphere by subsiding carbon-reducing projects that might not otherwise be profitable. The report pointed to Doctors Without Borders as an example of an organization that has sworn off carbon credits altogether.

In practice, as Mongabay and the New Humanitarian claimed, some of those carbon credits “fail to meet high standards,” and the U.N. is not doing the climate movement any favors by purchasing dubious credits and setting a bad example:

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Roughly 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, while a recent study of climate neutrality claims from 25 multinationals found most were overstated. British Airways and Delta Air Lines, for example, have faced particularly stringent criticism over their claims.Still, climate researchers and environmental advocates say the UN’s offsetting practices undermine its leadership on efforts to slow the pace of global warming.Aside from overseeing multiple climate treaties, the UN is also a steward in helping governments meet climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, organizing the annual COP climate conferences. This year’s COP28 starts on 30 November in Dubai.

The U.N. uses carbon credit sleight-of-hand to claim it has been very nearly carbon-neutral since 2018 — even though its agencies are actually pumping out carbon dioxide “roughly equal to the annual emissions of 1.5 million gasoline-powered cars.”The only recent year in which the U.N. meaningfully reduced its actual emissions, rather than buying carbon credits to “offset” them, was during the pandemic year of 2020. The Mongabay/New Humanitarian report suggested that U.N. emissions are not actually declining because it keeps hiring more staffers, who tend to generate a lot of carbon by traveling.The New Humanitarian also referred to its own 2021 research to argue that the U.N. simply fails to count a good deal of its emissions when it calculates its alleged “carbon neutrality,” like a dieter who decides the calories from Friday night pizza and beer simply do not count.Tracking down the U.N.’s fishy carbon credit claims proved to be taxing work for investigators, as the U.N. is “largely exempt from regulatory oversight,” and it does not scramble to answer questions about its practices from skeptical reporters. Dozens of the entities selling carbon credits to the U.N. either refused to answer questions about their practices or claimed they lacked the documentation to respond in detail.

 

Mongabay and the New Humanitarian were able to determine that over 350,000 of the carbon credits purchased by the U.N. over the past decade came from projects that were “linked to reports of environmental destruction, forced displacement, or health problems in communities near the projects,” such as a waste-to-energy plant in India that was emitting harmful air pollution.

 The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) bought thousands of carbon credits from a Brazilian hydropower plant that was accused of destroying forests and damaging biodiversity. In fact, a study found the plant’s deforestation more than wiped out the environmental benefits that supposedly allowed it to sell carbon credits.The report cited reviews that found many of the other hydropower and wind projects selling carbon credits to the U.N. did not meet the standards for doing so — and very few such projects actually meet the emission reduction targets that were claimed in order to justify selling credits.“I don’t know why the U.N. would still be buying wind and hydro,” sighed University of Pennsylvania climate researcher Joe Romm.Romm pointed out that the U.N. has a habit of buying huge volumes of cheap, and very low-quality, carbon credits — the climate change equivalent of junk bonds. The sheer size of the multi-billion-dollar carbon credit industry has attracted some shady operators, and the cost of vetting those credits adds to their already tremendous cost.Bloomberg News reported in June that a “major showdown is brewing over what counts as a carbon credit,” with the U.N. under heavy pressure to set higher standards that severely reduce profit from the lucrative industry.

Bloomberg noted that carbon offsets are currently a $2 billion industry — but they are expected to mushroom to a staggering $160 billion to $624 billion by the middle of the century, and one trillion dollars is not out of the question.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2 ... emissions/

The U.N. needs to be investigated for it's climate fraud ......
 
 

UN’s Under-Secretary-General talks about their plan to control media. Their new censorship agenda….

Translation:

“People are massively waking up so we need to upgrade our propaganda and censorship to the next level.”

Summary of the video:

UN's Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications wants to "massively ramp up" an
"information war" on "disinformation" with an
"army… pic.twitter.com/m7tIvPisQM

— Erwan Le Corre (@ErwanLeCorre) September 15, 2023
 
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2023 ... ip-agenda/

Majik » 16 Sep 2023, 7:19 am » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 7:19 am

Non-profit news agencies Mongabay and the New Humanitarian published a joint report on Wednesday that debunked the United Nations’ extravagant claims of “climate neutrality.”What the U.N. is actually doing, according to the report, is buying millions of dollars worth of “carbon credits” to “offset” its substantial emissions. Some of the projects that are supposedly “offsetting” the U.N.’s emissions are actually damaging the environment — or even the health of human beings.

 Carbon credits” are basically a shell game in which carbon emitters buy “permits” to spew more carbon dioxide from industries supposedly reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Environmental regulations have turned the carbon credit market into a grotesque billion-dollar “industry” that does not actually produce anything — it merely shuffles paperwork so that agencies and corporations can claim they are “carbon neutral” even though they still have prodigious emissions.Some climate activists are growing a bit skeptical of the carbon credit industry, which theoretically helps cleanse the atmosphere by subsiding carbon-reducing projects that might not otherwise be profitable. The report pointed to Doctors Without Borders as an example of an organization that has sworn off carbon credits altogether.

In practice, as Mongabay and the New Humanitarian claimed, some of those carbon credits “fail to meet high standards,” and the U.N. is not doing the climate movement any favors by purchasing dubious credits and setting a bad example:

​​​​​​

The U.N. uses carbon credit sleight-of-hand to claim it has been very nearly carbon-neutral since 2018 — even though its agencies are actually pumping out carbon dioxide “roughly equal to the annual emissions of 1.5 million gasoline-powered cars.”The only recent year in which the U.N. meaningfully reduced its actual emissions, rather than buying carbon credits to “offset” them, was during the pandemic year of 2020. The Mongabay/New Humanitarian report suggested that U.N. emissions are not actually declining because it keeps hiring more staffers, who tend to generate a lot of carbon by traveling.The New Humanitarian also referred to its own 2021 research to argue that the U.N. simply fails to count a good deal of its emissions when it calculates its alleged “carbon neutrality,” like a dieter who decides the calories from Friday night pizza and beer simply do not count.Tracking down the U.N.’s fishy carbon credit claims proved to be taxing work for investigators, as the U.N. is “largely exempt from regulatory oversight,” and it does not scramble to answer questions about its practices from skeptical reporters. Dozens of the entities selling carbon credits to the U.N. either refused to answer questions about their practices or claimed they lacked the documentation to respond in detail.

And yet the suckers keep falling for the "climate crisis".

roadkill » 16 Sep 2023, 8:02 am » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 8:02 am

And yet the suckers keep falling for the "climate crisis".

The number of western countries with left wing governments are negating their sovereignty and have pledged their fealty to their new one world government ...The U.N.
Including ours ....with this administration in power .....
The "climate crisis" propaganda being propagated globally is the largest disinformation campaign in the history of the world with the largest budget ever assembled  backing them.
which is why there are many sucker citizens of the western world whom will continually fall for the scam..... 

 

Majik » 16 Sep 2023, 8:21 am » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 8:21 am

The number of western countries with left wing governments are negating their sovereignty and have pledged their fealty to their new one world government ...The U.N.
Including ours ....with this administration in power .....
The "climate crisis" propaganda being propagated globally is the largest disinformation campaign in the history of the world with the largest budget ever assembled  backing them.
which is why there are many sucker citizens of the western world whom will continually fall for the scam.....

These people learned long ago that lying is very lucrative.   

roadkill » 16 Sep 2023, 8:25 am » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 8:25 am

These people learned long ago that lying is very lucrative.

It is lucrative especially when you have The obedient and lying  MSM riding shot gun continually validating their false hoods 24/7 on a global scale.


 

Majik » 16 Sep 2023, 8:37 am » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 8:37 am

It is lucrative especially when you have The obedient and lying  MSM riding shot gun continually validating their false hoods 24/7 on a global scale.

I see the corrupt media as one of our worst problems.

roadkill » 16 Sep 2023, 8:51 am » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 8:51 am

I see the corrupt media as one of our worst problems.

I see it as the most essential linchpin of any rising Authoritarian Government  Dictatorship which would fail without full  control of the MSM.....
Without a free non-politically unbiased media there is no real  freedom or real  Democracy .......and no real oversight....
 

Majik » 16 Sep 2023, 5:23 pm » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 5:23 pm

I see it as the most essential linchpin of any rising Authoritarian Government  Dictatorship which would fail without full  control of the MSM.....
Without a free non-politically unbiased media there is no real  freedom or real  Democracy .......and no real oversight....

You said it Majik.   

Majik » 16 Sep 2023, 8:37 am » wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2023, 8:37 am

It is lucrative especially when you have The obedient and lying  MSM riding shot gun continually validating their false hoods 24/7 on a global scale.

"U.N. Chief Guterres Opens General Assembly with Demand for $100 Billion to Fight ‘Climate Chaos’"

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023 ... ate-chaos/