It's a big one! I've just finished a major investigation into Verra, the organisation at the very heart of the carbon offsetting industry, finding that vast numbers of its credits are worthless.
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Investigative reporter | Climate change, corruption, democracy | luke@source-material.org | (encrypted) lukewbarratt@protonmail.com | He/Him
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Revolt of the South Pole penguins: leaked documents seen by SourceMaterial and show staff at the world's largest offsetting company are protesting to management about secretive deals with fossil fuel companies and authoritarian regimes.
I've been digging into the world's largest offsetting company, the billion-dollar South Pole.
Workers are in uproar over what they call the company's pursuit of profit over impact, and secretive deals with fossil fuel companies and authoritarian regimes.
I worked on this story with from , who have also published an English version of the story.
You can read it here
Lord Bob Kerslake was a true public servant. His kindness and commitment to improving our city and country will always be remembered.
My thoughts are with his family and friends today.
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My brother Bob (Lord Robert Kerslake) died yesterday after a short battle with cancer. We are all devastated.
Americans losing their minds because the sport of baseball has a single all-rounder is so funny
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Literally zero players. The comparison does not exist.
Shohei of the NFL is like if Patrick Mahomes also played defense and was Nick Bosa off the edge. twitter.com/PFF_Fantasy/st…
I'm in the New Statesman writing about - guess what - carbon offsetting.
It's a bit of an overview of some of the work I've been doing to show that the whole carbon offsetting world is out of touch with reality.
'called it pretty much right at Buzzfeed'
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Replying to @Fnridbdjeld
Having called it pretty much right at BuzzFeed, it helped restore my confidence having for 2015 wrong, tbh
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Rachel Reeves ditches Labour's plan to invest £28 billion a year on switching to a green economy from day one. Target will now be by the end of their first term.
This was a genuinely radical and transformative policy which now looks significantly watered down. #r4today