Felix Finkbeiner, the 23-year-old tree-planting wunderkind, and his organisation Plant-for-the-Planet are in the news again.
Tag: Natural Climate Solutions
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.
“Malthus in Smith clothing”: Robert Fletcher’s critique of The Dasgupta Review
Robert Fletcher at Wageningen University has written a much-needed critique of the Dasgupta Review in the Journal of Political Ecology.
Some questions for Frithjof Finkbeiner, founder of Plant-for-the-Planet
REDD-Monitor’s questions for Frithjof and Felix Finkbeiner about Plant-for-the-Planet’s claims about its tree planting operations in Mexico.
Greenpeace and the Wildlife Trusts raise concerns about Mark Carney’s carbon offsets plan: “A giant get-out-of-jail-free card for polluting companies”
A letter from Greenpeace UK and the Wildlife Trusts is critical of Mark Carney’s carbon offsetting plans. But not critical enough.