By Chris Lang On 11 December 2019, European Commission published a Communication setting out a European Green Deal for the European Union and its citizens. The Communication referred to its Comprehensive Strategy with Africa, and mentioned an initiative called “NaturAfrica”:
The aviation industry is avoiding its climate commitments while manipulating the price of carbon offsets downwards
By Chris Lang Before the coronavirus crisis, greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry were among the fastest growing of any industry. Yet there is no mention of the aviation sector in the Paris Agreement. Instead, in 2016, the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) announced that aviation would go “carbon neutral” from 2020.
REDD notes: 8 June 2020
By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. For more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry, greenwash, carbon offsetting, and so on, please follow @reddmonitor on Twitter.
Pakistan’s tree planting programmes: Corruption, exclusion and marginalisation
By Chris Lang At the end of April 2020, Thomson Reuters Foundation reported that Pakistan was employing people who had lost their jobs because of the coronavirus to plant trees. The article quoted Malik Amin Aslam Khan, climate change advisor to the prime minister, as saying that, “This tragic crisis provided an opportunity and we…
REDD notes: 1 June 2020
By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. For a lot more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry and so on, please follow @reddmonitor on Twitter.