Cordillera Azul National Park: Kichwa Indigenous communities have put out a statement opposing false climate solutions like offsetting, that benefit oil and mining companies.
Category: Netherlands
Dutch Advertising Watchdog rules Shell’s “CO2 Neutral” campaign is greenwash
The Dutch Advertising Code Commission has ruled that Shell’s CO2 neutral adverts are misleading.
Carbonballs: Nigel Farage, carbon offset lobbyist
Nigel Farage, former leader of the Brexit Party, has joined the advisory board of Dutch Green Business Group, a carbon trading company.
Indonesia’s Katingan REDD project sells carbon credits to Shell. But that doesn’t mean the forest is protected. It’s threatened by land conflicts, fires and a palm oil plantation
By Chris Lang The Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project covers an area of about 150,000 hectares in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The project was created in 2007 by an Indonesian company called PT Rimba Makmur Utama. The director of the company is Dharsono Hartono.
WWF scandal (part 11): Dutch documentary exposes the shoot on sight policy in Kaziranga National Park, India
Kaziranga National Park in the north east of India has a shoot on sight policy, used against poachers and villagers found inside the park. Violent evictions of communities who lived in the national park have taken place, and park rangers are accused of serious human rights violations. Kaziranga was the subject of a recent documentary…