The Dark Side of Conservation – An interview with Big Green Politics Podcast.
Oil company Eni plans 8.1 million hectare land grab in Africa for carbon offset plantations
Italian oil and gas company Eni has announced plans to establish plantations over an area of 8.1 million hectares in Africa. The proposal is part of the company’s plans for greenhouse gas emissions from its exploration and production operations to be “net zero” by 2030.
Green Finance Observatory: Carbon markets “will never work and should be abandoned”
Green Finance Observatory: New report notes that “Carbon markets have spectacularly failed to curb greenhouse gases for over a decade. . . “
Exposed by Buzzfeed News: WWF’s lies about Indigenous People being “supportive” of its proposed Messok Dja National Park in the Republic of Congo
Messok Dja is a 1,456 square kilometre area of dense rainforest in the northwest of the Republic of Congo. For years, WWF has been working to persuade the government to establish a new Messok Dja National Park. On its website, WWF states that the forest is “highly threatened by intense elephant poaching and ivory trafficking”….
Open letter by the Swift Foundation rejects REDD and carbon trading as false solutions to climate change
On 11 September 2018, shortly before the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, 17 foundations signed on to a “Joint Statement Supporting Forests, Rights, and Lands for Climate”.