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Copenhagen is using biomass from monoculture plantations in Brazil to become “carbon neutral”: Yet another false solution to the climate crisis

Posted on 13 March 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang Copenhagen plans to be the world’s first carbon neutral capital city by 2025. One of the city’s targets is to produce electricity from wind and “sustainable biomass”. Two weeks ago the ship IDC Pearl arrived at the Amager BIO4 power plant in Copenhagen carrying more than 32,000 tons of wood chips from…

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The Swedish Energy Agency has stopped buying carbon credits from Green Resources’ destructive plantations in Uganda

Posted on 11 March 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang The Swedish Energy Agency has cancelled its contract to buy carbon credits from Green Resources. The Swedish Energy Agency has finally recognised the impacts that Green Resources’ industrial tree plantations have on local communities in Kachung in Uganda.

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The Green Climate Fund must reject Arbaro’s industrial tree plantations

Posted on 10 March 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang At its 25th board meeting from 10-12 March 2020, the Green Climate Fund is due to decide whether to provide US$25 million to the Arbaro Fund. The money, together with a further US$175 million co-financing largely from other public sources, would be used to establish 75,000 hectares of commercial tree plantations in…

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Global Forestry Investments

High Court orders Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers, former directors of Global Forestry Investments, to pay £8.6 million

Posted on 25 February 202018 June 2020

By Chris Lang Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers ran a company called GFI Consultants Ltd. They used the name Global Forestry Investments and claimed to offer an “ethical and financially rewarding investment” in teak plantations in Brazil.

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One trillion trees. A naive and dangerous distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground

Posted on 22 February 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang At its meeting in Davos last month, the World Economic Forum launched a new initiative to plant one trillion trees. Even Donald Trump is on board.

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