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
Tag: Natural Climate Solutions
Greta Thunberg: “We are not telling you to offset your emissions”
By Chris Lang Greta Thunberg’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week is important. This is the first time, as far as I’m aware, that Thunberg has said, in so many words, that carbon offsets are not a solution to the climate crisis.
How Dan Nepstad and the Earth Innovation Institute are using natural climate solutions and carbon offsets to greenwash the oil industry, while turning a blind eye to deforestation, corruption, and land rights conflicts
By Chris Lang In the latest issue of the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Jutta Kill writes that the COP 25 UN climate negotiations held in Madrid in December 2019, “will be remembered as the moment where the UN and conservation industry discourse and propaganda over REDD+ were replaced by the new forest conservation fad: Nature-Based-Solutions”.
Open letter to the Salvadorean government: Natural climate solutions and REDD “are being used to divert the climate debate from true solutions, based on avoiding and reducing emissions from the burning of fossil fuels”
By Chris Lang The Climate Change Board of El Salvador has written an open letter raising its concerns about the statements made by Fernando López, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, at the UN Climate Action Summit, held in New York, in September 2019. The letter also raises concerns about the Salvadorean government’s plans for…
Total greenwash: Total CEO announces oil company will spend US$100 million a year on forest protection and reforestation
By Chris Lang On 6 July 2019, Patrick Pouyanné, the CEO of French oil and gas company Total, announced that his company would invest US$100 million per year in forest protection. Total’s announcement comes shortly after similar announcements by Shell and Eni to offset some of their emissions with forest conservation projects.