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I aurge you to not endorse the California Tropical Forest Standard,
and to ensure that these tropical forest offsets never are accepted
into California’s carbon trading system, or adopted by
out-of-state entities like the International Commercial Aviation
Organization (ICAO).

Carbon offsets allow big emitters in California to keep polluting,
instead of reducing their carbon footprint. They perpetuate
pollution hotspots and prevent California from taking real action
on climate change. If the ICAO were to adopt tropical forest
offsets, it would allow airline emissions to continue growing while
putting tropical forests into the market over the protests of local
communities -- a bad idea.

Tropical forest carbon offsets lack integrity, pose unacceptably
high risks of violating indigenous and human rights, and are
impossible to police across national borders. California should not
be encouraging them through the endorsement of the TFS.