At the end of last month, the Sustainable Development Goals were launched in New York. One of the goals is to eliminate poverty by 2030. This is to be achieved by continued economic growth.
Author: Chris Lang
A message to the UNFCCC: To stop climate crimes, leave fossil fuels in the ground
“Concretely, governments have to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and to freeze fossil fuel extraction by leaving untouched 80% of all existing fossil fuel reserves.” That’s the demand in a statement signed by Naomi Klein, Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva.
Norway pays Brazil US$1 billion. But what for, exactly?
In 2008, Norway agreed to pay US$1 billion to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, if Brazil reduced deforestation in the Amazon. Norway has so far handed over US$900 million and will pay the final US$100 million before the end of this year.
London Carbon Credit Company scammed people out of £1.7 million. Company director Young Erumuse disqualified for 15 years
By Chris Lang Earlier this month, the director of a carbon credit company was disqualified as a director by the High Court for 15 years. Young Erumuse was the director of the London Carbon Credit Company Limited, a company that sold carbon credits to retail investors.
Dennis Melka: Exporting deforestation from Sarawak to Peru
Dennis Melka’s company United Cacao Limited is responsible for “illegally clearing swathes of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon”, the Guardian reports.