By Chris Lang At its 25th board meeting from 10-12 March 2020, the Green Climate Fund is due to decide whether to provide US$25 million to the Arbaro Fund. The money, together with a further US$175 million co-financing largely from other public sources, would be used to establish 75,000 hectares of commercial tree plantations in…
Tropical forests are losing their ability to store carbon. “What more of a wake-up call do we need?”
By Chris Lang According to research published in Nature, one of the most worrying impacts of the climate crisis has already started. Tropical forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon. The research found that the Amazon could stop being a carbon sink as soon as 2035.
How Microsoft avoids answering questions about its “carbon negative” partnership with Pachama: “We’d like to politely decline to respond on this one”
By Chris Lang In January 2020, Microsoft announced a new climate initiative. The company’s press release was headlined, “Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030”. It sounds great. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s climate initiative is greenwash, based on carbon removal, (a technology that Microsoft admits, “does not exist today”), and tree planting on a massive scale (which…
High Court orders Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers, former directors of Global Forestry Investments, to pay £8.6 million
By Chris Lang Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers ran a company called GFI Consultants Ltd. They used the name Global Forestry Investments and claimed to offer an “ethical and financially rewarding investment” in teak plantations in Brazil.
One trillion trees. A naive and dangerous distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
One trillion trees: The World Economic Forum’s announcement of its tree planting initiative is a dangerous distraction from the role burning fossil fuels on the climate crisis