At the Oil and Money conference in London last year, Shell’s CEO Ben van Beurden was worried that his audience might think that Shell had “gone soft” on oil and gas. He was keen to reassure them that, “Shell’s core business is, and will be for the foreseeable future, very much in oil and gas.”
Category: Thailand
Big Green Politics Podcast: “The Dark Side of Conservation”
For the past two-and-a-half years I’ve been running a website called Conservation-Watch. I recently did an interview with the Big Green Politics Podcast, about the impact of conservation on indigenous peoples – the podcast went live yesterday.
An email trail of a carbon credit scam (part 2). Featuring 360 Invest Group, Carbon-ex, and Colemans-CTTS
In April 2016, REDD-Monitor wrote a post featuring a series of emails that ouline how a pensioner called Miriam was scammed into handing over £23,000 for carbon credits, which the scammers claimed were an investment. Ten days ago, Miriam sent REDD-Monitor some more emails. This post features these new emails.
Assembly of the Poor: Stop human rights abuses by Thailand’s military
On 22 May 2014, Thailand’s Royal Thai Armed Forces launched a coup d’état and set up a junta with the appropriately Orwellian name, the National Council for Peace and Order.
Demand for luxury furniture in China pushes Siamese rosewood to the brink of extinction
“Hongmu” is a style of intricately carved Chinese wooden furniture and artworks. It’s found on sale in glitzy shopping malls across mainland China. But behind the timber used to create this art form is a violent crime wave.