Stop the 30×30 plan: Survival International has launched a campaign to stop the target of putting 30% of the planet in protected areas by 2030.
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30×30: “A bigger land grab than has ever been planned”
30×30 – protecting 30% of the earth’s surface by 2030 – threatens the biggest land grab the world has ever seen – in the name of conservation.
‘Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures’ (OECMs): an acceptable face of protected areas that can save biodiversity?
By Simon Counsell Summary So-called ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ (OECMs) are included in the proposed global target to increase protected areas to thirty per cent of the planet by 2030 (‘30×30’). They can notionally involve designations such as indigenous territories and community conserved lands in order to overcome the well-documented human rights problems caused…
Companies buy older and cheaper carbon offsets. But that’s just Gresham’s Law in action: “Bad money drives out good”
Companies buy older and cheaper carbon offsets: Gresham’s Law explains how companies tend to buy the worst possible carbon offsets.
Carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis
By Chris Lang During the first phase of the postponed Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (COP15), Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK, wrote an article explaining why carbon offsetting through tree planting will not help solve the climate crisis….