Hello, im Darren Jordan unto the top stories head on al jazeera, ukraines president is accused russia of committing hundreds of war crimes and killing civilians in the southern her son, region Ukrainian Forces retook parts of the area. Last week, after Russian Troops were treated slits, loza, investigators have already documented more than full 100 russian bull crime lab bodies of both civilians and military are being found in the her san branch in the russian army left the same savagery behind as in other regions of our country are it managed to invade, we will find and bring to justice. Every murderer, without any down, a suspect has been detained in istanbul off for an explosion that killed at least 6 people on sunday. More than 80 wounded, the turkish interior minister says the suspect belongs to the kurdish separate his group, the p k. K. Boy upon the perpetrator, the one who placed the bomb has been arrested by our police force. Our findings show the p. K. K. Tara group was behind the attack. I repeat, we will avenge this attack, and heard them more than they heard us. Well, leaders have been arriving in barley for the g 20 summit. Yes, President Joe Biden was among the 1st to landon in the major is due to meet, she shipping on monday for their 1st face to face talks and biden, and to the white house. East African Leaders of an outs talks aimed at stopping the fighting an eastern democratic republic of congo, a so called peace star logger, beheld in kenya on november 21st announcement came as Congolese Forces battled rebels for control of cuba and north kiva province. Natasha pierce. Massage becomes trevinos 1st female president after winning a runoff election. Messiah as a lawyer and former data privacy commissioner, she won nearly 54 percent of the vote. Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in spains capital madrid and they came out in support of Public Health workers who are demanding more staff. They say the regional governments trying to dismantle the Public Health system in favor of private providers in mexico demonstrates as have been protesting government plans to reformed electoral system. President ambrose manual loafers abra door says the moon will reduce electoral fraud. But critics argue itll compromise democracy. With those, with the headlines, the news continues here now to 0. After all. Hell the planet stage of them so much bye. For now. Theres a story being spot, a fantasy whipping sold the notions that we can set, all the carbon we generate that i can even get on to a fly, 25 to take the right box and create a few extra dollars when purchasing my ticket. My journey can be Carbon Neutral with net 0 implications for the final Carbon Offset smith 0 kelvin neutral. All of these catch phrases, these labels, they sound too good to be true. Thats because they all ah, with climate breakdown is the existential crisis about age. In fact, its been the most serious threat to life for at least a couple of generations. But now it finally reached a point where a majority of governments and populations agree that this is a monumental issue. And if you listen to politicians and corporate leaders, it seems that pulling out all the stops, making ambitious pledges to slow down. If not hope, the destruction of our planet, europe will be the worlds 1st climate neutral continent. Net 0 emissions. And thats era by 2050 mid doodle, little soul here the softly she said hunger becoming a net 0 Emissions Energy business by 2050, 2030 for our restaurants. No impact on the planet. Were completely net 0. Were completely neutral. Those promises sound great. But when you pull apart the language, those key phrases and turns things get a little mackey, it is important to remember that the language of Carbon Neutral or net 0 emissions is incredibly misleading and it high its important contradictions. Joanna combo is an environmental researcher who has spent more than a decade analyzing Climate Policies and Climate Justice issues. Its basically based on an idea that pollution can be compensated somewhere else by a project. Implement that mostly in the yellow south that should either avoid the me shows or absorb emissions and by doing so pump and said the pollution from the polluter. Its not because theyre reducing, not because they are capping their emissions, but because they are getting some credits that are doing the compensation that they the cleaning up somewhere else. This logic of offsetting is what is misleading in all these language, because one would think, oh companies are actually doing something about it. They are addressing the problem and that is confusing for people and even society. They are trying to be man, some action for Climate Change. The reason climate, scientists, and activists a seriously question Carbon Offsetting or carbon mutual programs, is because they just do not do what they claim. They cant, not when the fundamental premise on which these programs are based is so deeply flawed. Lets take an example. Im traveling to tasmania, where some of these programs are based, and im flying with quantas australias Largest Airline company, which also happens to run one of the largest offsetting programs of any airline in the world called fly Carbon Neutral. You as a passenger one to 5 Carbon Neutral to die, the best way is to voluntarily Carbon Offset your flight. Its an enticing idea when i buy my ticket. The calculation is made by the airline for my contribution to the amount of fuel used for my journey, and therefore emissions released. And i pay an extra fee, in this case, just over 5. 00. That money is then given to a number of other companies for use on Carbon Offsetting projects. Here are the ones that quantized with quantas on my behalf has basically bought a carbon credit permission to keep emitting on the basis that trees or Renewable Energy can offset pollution. One credit represents one ton of Carbon Emissions. The math looks simple. One negative, this one positive equals whats called net 0. But what youre saying, joanna, is that equation doesnt really work. So it is really important that we understand that there are 2 very different types of carbon. And this is fairly, talk a while, but hes full num info. So we have phosphate carbone. These deposits that are locked under ground for meals and millions of years. And then you have the biological carbon, which is this more dynamic carbon, the flows around trees. They did, they ocean, i mean, dynamic changes. It goes from one to the other. But what is not mentioned in the Climate Crisis is that im looking for a car that took millions of years to be create thats been our beam burned in the shape of petroleum. Gov or coal mem, matthew scale and in a short period of time. And thats kind of impossible for the earth capacity to deal with these to absorb, to regulate. If we dont stop burning petroleum, oil and gas, we are not addressing the problem. An offset is a way to not talk about the theres really no such new Carbon Offset. If you really look at it, its made up. Tom gold tooth is a climate, justice activist, and executive director of the indigenous environmental network. There is no such thing as offset the pollution by planting. Its 3. Even the scientists agree with their, you cant swap carbon thats been part of rushed in process across the fields for above ground carbon in the biosphere. Theyre separate entities, but the market system doesnt differentiate that they package it up to gather. So were being scammed when theres really no. I said its just a way of Business People to make money and to look good on paper. So if thats in my there are they also scheme where this molecule is coming from. When was he done, or how long the walking dead and fear . What if master sees the polluter has an accounting sheet . Some numbers where is the, how many molecules they are meeting. And they also project on the other side that comes in teeth where they say, how many c o 2 molecules they are absorbing or reducing or avoiding me. And therefore these trading can happen. Business in the net 0 industry is booming. Amazon, you lever, disney, google sex, and shell a some of the Largest Companies using offset programs to reach this sustainability goals. Google is the 1st Major Company to eliminate our n pair carbon legacy co. Now well with all of my little calon, the 1st net 0 c o 2 concrete world 1st certified Carbon Neutral commercial Vehicle Engine oil. These companies and the people managing their offset programs, sound really convinced about the value of their campaigns. We are going to keep improving and why we do that. Were also going to offset our remaining emissions from today. We are offsetting all the Carbon Emissions from our fly with any remaining emissions that you cannot eliminate with real change you are agreeing to do offsets. Now if by this point you think the whole Carbon Offset net 0 obsession is an elaborate rule created by big corporations as a distraction and diversion tactic, we wouldnt be completely wrong. Big business, especially big oil, has played a significant role in lobbying for and developing Carbon Trading markets. However, theres been other key players that have been instrumental in the process, including the United Nations and whole bunch of governments. In fact, the very idea of emissions trading of turning carbon into a commodity was one of the highlights of the 1997 kyoto protocol, which was a Milestone International treaty broken by the un to deal with the Climate Crisis. From non industrialized countries that are part of the printer have a clear obligation to reduce emissions. To do so, they can use the market to trade a new commodity javion under the kyoto protocol signatory governments would participate in a system called cap and trade. The 1st half of this process, the negotiation of carbon caps, would place limits on emissions from countries and big corporations. However, if they couldnt stay within the specified Carbon Emissions limits, then they still had an out. And thats where the trade part of the program would kick in. Corporations could simply buy a carbon credit from another emitter who may have fallen below the threshold of emissions. Oh, from one of a number of other offsetting initiatives. In short, they could pick up a permit to continue emitting cap and the polluting corporation. Sorry. Can i sell banks and trade these permits that are also called allowances . So when the price is low, this scoop them up by them up and bank them for later use when, when prices go up. So if, if these permits arm enough, ah, the polluters can purchase more Carbon Offsets from other sources with upsets. It has been actually a very cheap way or investor life qualities and companies to get of the hope to have no response of either account delete the re elecom, deleting for their pollution or for their destruction. And we dont know a structural change. Advocates of the kyoto protocol would argue that the United Nations did create a scheme to encourage structural change, the Clean Development mechanism, or cdn, set up in 2001. It was the worlds 1st and so far largest Carbon Offset scheme. Countries with high emissions like canada, japan and australia could help achieve their own cure to targets by purchasing credits linked to carbon reduction programs in countries like china, india, and brazil. Which needed to keep National Economic development on track. But it committed to do so without generating the volume of emissions rich countries produced when they were growing their economies. So for example, if a power plant in australia needed to shape 10 percent of its emissions, it could buy offsets from a solar power project in india. The power plant there might initially have been coal fueled, but the sale of carbon credits could help cover the higher costs of developing solar power. The gap in emissions between the hypothetical coal plant and the actual solar farm would constitute the unlimited carbon that could now be sold as units of certified emissions reductions. Basically permission slips to allow polluting entities to put out the carbon that was supposedly being held from the atmosphere. The stadium was extremely popular in its heyday. More than 8000 projects in a 111 countries have registered with the scheme, which is handed out more than 2000000000 carbon credits. Representing a claim of more than 2000000000 tons of Carbon Dioxide reduction, or avoidance. The un says the cdm has also funded more than 19000000000. 00 worth of Renewable Energy investment in developing countries. However, the program has been mired and complexity and controversy. It has been widely researched that the clean, the velo mcmoney some brought about incredible amount of injustice on the ground. So we see, for example, hydro electric dams are being said to produce clean energy. Is another misleading claim because it is in fact not clinical. We have the Energy Production that is produced by what there, but there is a whole infrastructure that was built on, sometimes a forest or another river. It will see them and the energy that these 2 deals there. Usually most of that im not going to be the lever to the Community Around that are most of the times without access to energy is going to be most of the times for Mining Industry that are nearby that need the energy in order to keep extracting. So we see how that the sign of the scheme is not really taking consideration of the social aspects of the environmental aspects. But hes only considering that accounting. Shes the cdm wasnt the only program of its kind 10 years after the kyoto protocol in 2007, another u. N backed program came into being the title made the mission pretty clear, reducing emissions from deforestation, and forrest degredation in short form red. It tackled head on one of the most urgent problems facing those working on the Climate Crisis. The rapid degradation of vital forest sooner with the red plan was quite ingenious. In its simplicity, developing countries would basically be paid not to cut down trees. So i was big ones and never more brittle those what is feel is a deforestation modeling expert in brazil, i was invited as part of science meeting with the 1st read project, bazillion amazon for me together we for several science and then and, and i found that was not really cited roger, but roger sale come french, what elements of your work were included in the red program . We aware ione, in developing modeling for simulating for station and a borrower, those math developers, delusional read baseline. So doesnt matter. Technical details. If the, the math of the methods brit helter refers to, is basically the maths. It begins with an estimation of how much deforestation could be expected in an area. If the financial incentives from red didnt exist. Unsurprisingly, the more deforestation you anticipate, the more carbon credits you generate, the more money you can make. The whole system is very vulnerable to being gained, so to try and add legitimacy by predicting deforestation more accurately. Some red projects employed a piece of Free Software developed by protell though cord jamica ego. The program focused land news changes over time and was designed to measure the specific impact of policy decisions on forced it areas. For example, measuring the potential impact of expanding katelyn. So industries in the amazon basin, but his brutality points out models are used to avert an undesirable outcome and cannot be used to predict the future. We have exclaim of dont support appli vishal motives to set up those lines. The gross deforestation advanced much more on the National Lead on. So if you say im going this region the difference, its very small because all the drivers of the station really control it by the political signal that the government pass on paper. It makes sense to make Forest Conservation as lucrative as forest destruction is given that just making deforestation illegal with serious penalties doesnt seem to work anywhere, stay corruption, corporate lobbying, vested political, and business interests. Had all meant that outlawing deforestation has minimal impact. Its virtually pointless. Rent has not been able to develop a market for carbon credits that is robust and actually truly incentivizes forest protection. All of this means that deforestation is on the rise. Just take a look at the stats from brazil alone. New satellite data from brazils National Institute for Space Research shows that more than 3980 square kilometers of the amazon, an area, 2 and a half times the size of bangkok was cleared in the 1st 6 months of 2022. Thats an increase of 10. 6 percent from the Previous Year and the highest figure since 2015 when the institute began this type of monitoring. This green story is being repeated around the world in places like the congo emperor tongue culture. It has been a long time critic of Carbon Offsetting in general and programs like read in particular in 2010. He was blocked from entering the cop 16 conference center. The day after he publicly critter size d u. N. Process for Carbon Trading and red, expanding Carbon Offset have real and damage. It impacts on Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Our organization and many other networks. And myself was really major speaker about this, where lou stickers with read on it with the black line, you know, read, i noticed it as i was boring out to exit the un needing as i swipe my badge there, the computer screen heather red line through my face were viewed as troublemakers you could say, but were, were really looking for Real Solutions as what were doing. Criticism of how read programs are executed and not misplaced. In 2015, a french study into a 120. 00 read projects across latin america, east africa and asia found that nearly 40 percent overlapped with existing protected lands Like National parks. Many had failed. The edition ality criteria, and the authors of the study concluded that read had been reduced to simply a logo to attract financing. Then is the 2018 findings out of no way by far the most generous supporter of red while simultaneously being a major exporter of oil and natural gas noise office of the order to general found that despite a decades work and 3000000000. 00 in funding results, from red projects were delayed and uncertain, especially since there was considerable risk of whats called leakage, which is basically when protecting one patch of land leads to deforestation elsewhere. Theres also the issue of permanence in order for trees to capture emissions. Those trees need to be around for a long time, centurys not years, but because of Climate Change during carbon in trees has become increasingly unstable. Drought, fire, and flood will see many of the offset projects created today destroyed in the coming decades. Finally, theres a big issue with land there simply isnt enough of it on earth to soak up the sheer amount of corporate Carbon Emissions. A 2021 oxfam report estimates that the amount of land required to meet the wilson at 0 targets could amount to 5 times the size of india. Thats more than the entire area of farmland on the planet. Much of it, whatever available land there is. Rightfully belongs to indigenous and other local peoples. In many cases, they have not been properly consulted and their rights to their traditional territory, a simply ignored with the system. So full of holes. All that has done is create a new market for climate profiteers. Now after years, so having those, the scheme in place and running, we see how flawed they are and how many projects that have been certified actually have a lot of conflicts on the ground and have a lot of you regularities. So there is a problem from the technical part of point of view or from the social aspect of the project, but nevertheless, the certify as our 3rd, the buying a lot of these projects because its a business who is regulating the regulators, was like a sport market you buyers market from one and then you can reach out to somebody else, this person then resell who, another one, and so it goes on. The market can become a monster itself and big its own bath graziano final go up. Market. Make profit. Not really sure. Mitigate church, the problems with red just kept piling up, even the u. N. Eventually couldnt dismiss the issues at cop 25 in 2019 changes were made, read was re branded. It was now part of a series of schemes that are broadly called Nature Based Solutions. Among the many entities promoting versions of this phrase at the un climate meeting was a group of private corporations including b, p, shell, aramco and chevron. Together with a number of other b corporations. They call themselves the International EmissionsTrading Association or i. E t a through their markets for natural climate solutions. They say they will use nature in its entirety to both remove Greenhouse Gases and to manage emissions. Assessing the effectiveness of so called Nature Based Solutions is not particularly challenging. All of the initiatives, whether associated with protecting and restoring forests, a soils, wetlands or marine environments replicate. And in fact, magnify the fundamental flaw present in the Clean Development mechanism and read that it is a compensation based system, Carbon Emissions, and not reduced in said theyre supposedly offset through complex and opaque emissions trading markets. Enabling companies to say that they are Carbon Neutral. Even though theyre still burning fossil fuels in the onset of trading air, ah, in a colonial market system treats it as a property. Right. So the question that is often resolved in mesa negotiations is the corporation ending up are only the property of the carbon in the trees. This idea, which is the complete nearly early stage of the claim of the bathe, where all nature should become a therapys provider to humans is very be alarming threat to forest people. Because kind of each of these claims there is love that is being enclosed for doing another project. So what we called is that there is a conservation industry nowadays with governments and corporations saying offsets are a key part of the solution. Average consumers cannot contribute further to the degradation of our planet had been persuaded to take part in the charade. There are momentary programs being sold to offset everything from household emissions to car emissions and something called yep, you a website that enables individuals to offset their own breath for 27. 00 a year. Carbon market scenarios are being utilized to allow Civil Society to relieve their guilt if a diversion technique used by carbon traders to distract the public from a port and action of keeping oil and hole in the ground. Thats part in mind. What we see know this year of us shows and climate the base is the pollution anything even though so many have been put in place. We need to think of also talked the scheme that hes actually making the problem worse. Not making it better, so there is no book project or but project only certification. Its a kind of mask the quickest. He said that if underneath, after 25 plus years of fighting the carbon market, i think we can reasonably claim that carbon treaty offset the carbon prize scene and all of the iterations of red plus nature base solution. Net 0 emissions targets. And its all the same thing. It is the biggest distraction and scam on mother earth on the planet. Theres a story being spun, a lie, were being told, its the notion that we can offset all the cars and we generate the only way to reduce Carbon Pollution is to reduce Carbon Emissions. To actually cut fossil fuel extraction and usage. All of the other stuff tree planting, protecting and restoring ecosystems investing and Renewable Energy. All of that great and very much needed. But without reducing our structural demand for, for, for fuel. We are in effect not just doing nothing when making things way. Also are making us believe that something is being done when actually what is being done is worse than in the problem, is allowing the driver to go on to even claim that hes green, but he sustainable. So instead of talking about fuel, were talking about c o 2 molecule and well doing so, it actually feels all the violence and abuse of power that the fuel fuel industry is built upon. Now was the time to be direct. There is a growing realization that rights can be taken away in this country to cut through the rhetoric. How can we resist these narrative and how dangerous and demand the true join me mark them on hill for up front . What out there . Ah ah, ah ah. Ah, how i was still got some cloud in the forecasts across part of the middle east at the moment. Big band of crowd actually from central areas of the red sea. Right. The way up to the well the flank of the, of the gulf. Theyre just eating across q 8 into iraq bits and pieces. The sharon on that not too much to speak up, but there is some there. Nevertheless, we some rain tend to snow ever higher grad of afghanistan. That just pushes up towards northern parts of pakistan. Speclink showers, theyre just around the caucasus wanted to showers therein to jordan into syria. Northern parts of a route for a time further south will here encounter temperatures in doha, hovering around the low thirties over the next few days. Or, pacey sunshine, coming through plenty of sunshine to across northern parts of africa. You might just catch the odd rochelle just along the coastal fringes of libya, maybe to the far north of egypt as well, but from much of north africa, whats the sunshine, hazy sunshine as we come down towards nigeria . Southern parts of nigeria, southern areas of west africa. Right through ghana, ivory coast all the way towards liberia. Still seeing some live the showers. Plenty of showers now making the way see democratic republic of congo, zambia saying some wet weather, zimbabwe looking unsettled and tending increasingly wet from mozambique. Ah ah