Plantations are not forests! WRM’s statement to mark the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations.
Tag: Natural Climate Solutions
Financialisation of nature: A “neoliberal and doomed approach to conservation”
Frédéric Hache of the Green Finance Observatory gave an excellent presentation at the Our Land Our Nature Congress on the Financialisation of Nature.
Nature is NOT a “solution”: World Rainforest Movement on nature-based dispossessions (part 1)
A recent issue of the World Rainforest Movement is titled, ‘Nature-based Solutions’: Concealing a Massive Land Robbery”.
Plant-for-the-Planet: dubious organisational structure, controversial scientific foundation, a lack of professional support, and the failure to verify tree-planting reports
Felix Finkbeiner, the 23-year-old tree-planting wunderkind, and his organisation Plant-for-the-Planet are in the news again.
Anatomy of a ‘Nature-Based Solution’: Total oil, 40,000 hectares of disappearing African savannah, Emmanuel Macron, Norwegian and French ‘aid’ to an election-rigging dictator, trees to burn, secret contacts, and dumbstruck conservationists
Here’s the backstory of Total oil’s announcement of its plans to plant a “40,000 hectare forest” in the Republic of Congo to offset and greenwash its emissions.