A new analysis by Space Intelligence 🚀🛰️🌎🗺️'s Chief Scientist, Ed Mitchard 🛰️, and others, finds that the West et al. 2023 study on REDD+ projects contains serious flaws and unfairly discredits the impact of forest carbon projects. Read the paper and press release: bit.ly/48bRcNT #REDD

Our much-anticipated stakeholder's event 2023 is ongoing at Mestil Hotel Kampala. We are excited to celebrate this 20-year journey since the inception of TGB in 1999. #tgb@20

If direct air removal costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion annually (~4x US military spending). It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be carbon-free). thebulletin.org/2023/12/direct…

My hypothesis, sadly, is that the surge/crash pattern in climate journalism exists because news outlets are chasing a limited pool of readers who are already engaged. You can throw more reporters at it, more glitzy visuals, but in the end, it’s a finite audience. There is an aura

COTAP's biggest year-end update EVER! cotap.org/2023/12/decemb…. News from our projects in Uganda, India, Indonesia, and Fiji, from Plan Vivo Foundation , and from COTAP itself. Plus commentary on #COP28, #AB1305, theguardian.org, and Steve Zwick & Al Gore's awesomeness. 🎄 ☃ 🌎

Merriment in #Mawphlang! Here's a taste of the Khasi Hills REDD+ Project Team's holiday party, complete with a gift exchange, treats, games, and... our favorite... an *artificial* tree 😍 #sdgs #climatechange #climatejustice #naturebasedsolutions #deforestation Plan Vivo Foundation

COTAP updates! A price increase, 2025 Gold Transparency Status on Candid, and a new addition to our merch... mailchi.mp/cotap/pricing-…

It’s not the temperature. It’s the vulnerability. Gates is spot on.

A little piece of COTAP history is up for auction on eBay... ebay.com/itm/3766538203…

So there's active ethnic cleansing in Sudan as the U.S. announces a 2026 refugee ceiling of 7,500... down from 125,000 and now prioritizing white South Africans. Or maybe not? The next TACO Tuesday is coming up November 4th...

"It’s time to put human welfare at the center of our climate strategies" - Bill Gates. Hmmm... he might just be onto something! gatesnotes.com/home/home-page…

As Google's Scope 2 emissions explode 3x from 2020 to 3.1m tonnes, it teams up with a $30 million Series A for-profit. Not surprisingly, "Both companies declined to comment on the value of the deal." What $/% is going to participating rural communities?! reuters.com/sustainability…

COTAP on the radio! Tune in to KDOW Radio Wed 11/12 @ 2 PM Pacific to listen to founder Tim Whitley chat with Dynasti E Young, Political Media Strategist, host of The Money Pulse, part of Salem Media's The Wall Street Business Network. Also airing 11/15-11/17 and eventually online at showlanding.com/page/1e63be62-….

COTAP now accepts stock thanks to our partnership with Every.org! cotap.org/stock. Avoid capital gains, get an income tax deduction, take action on your unavoidable CO2 emissions, and create life-changing income for some of the world's poorest communities! Mark Ulrich

Our radio interview just dropped @ cotap.org/2025/11/cotap-…! Founder Tim Whitley chats w/The Money Pulse host Dynasti E Young, Political Media Strategist about COTAP's origins, offsetting's use case, why Greenpeace International sucks, why Steve Zwick doesn't, and offsetting's historical & political contexts.

Those new rockin' Kars4Kids radio ad spots are outstanding. And they should be, because they took in $99.9 million in 2023 and blew $39.6 million of it on marketing! If only there was a charity where 90% went to programs... oh wait... cotap.org/donate-your-ca…!

COTAP’s paying out over $440K to projects …and creating $264K+ in community income! cotap.org/2025/10/cotap-…

Meet 3 Farmers: Tadeo Mudungu, Deo Muramya, & Jethu Musanji! cotap.org/2025/12/uganda… ECOTRUST Plan Vivo Foundation

Women's Self-Help Group (SHG) Jamboree in the Khasi Hills! cotap.org/2025/12/women-…. On December 12th, as many as 647 SHG's from the East Khasi Hills and Ri-Bhoi district participated in a large-scale festival at the Khasi Heritage Village in Mawphlang... youtube.com/watch?v=4lwhER…

Season's Greetings! December 2025 Updates from COTAP cotap.org/2025/12/decemb…