Frédéric Hache of the Green Finance Observatory gave an excellent presentation at the Our Land Our Nature Congress on the Financialisation of Nature.
Tag: Natural Climate Solutions

How Total’s fantasy of carbon neutral fossil fuel is helped by offsets from the Kariba REDD+ Project in Zimbabwe
Total’s claims of carbon neutral fossil fuel are complete nonsense and a disaster for the climate.

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.