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Tag: The Nature Conservancy

The Wrong Kind of Green: A discussion

Posted on 17 March 201013 April 2018

Two weeks ago, journalist Johann Hari wrote a searing article in The Nation, raising important questions about conservation NGOs that accept funding from polluting corporations. Hari argues that the funding appears to have influenced the actions the NGOs take to address climate change.

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The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International: Putting profits before planet

Posted on 5 March 201013 April 2018

“Why did America’s leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen and lobby for policies that will lead to the faster death of the rainforests – and runaway global warming?” Good question. It comes from a new article by journalist Johann Hari in The Nation. In the article, “The Wrong Kind of Green”, Hari slams the corruption…

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Guaraqueçaba, The Nature Conservancy

Injustice on the carbon frontier in Guaraqueçaba, Brazil

Posted on 6 November 200913 December 2020

It really hasn’t been a good few weeks for The Nature Conservancy. First Greenpeace slammed TNC’s Noel Kempff project in Bolivia. Now investigative journalist Mark Schapiro reports from Brazil’s Atlantic Coast about TNC’s Guaraqueçaba project. Schapiro’s article in Mother Jones and a series of films on Frontline/World, document the impacts of the project.

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Noell Kempff, Bolivia

Carbon scam: the Noel Kempff project in Bolivia

Posted on 22 October 200914 December 2020

By Chris Lang Greenpeace recently released a report which illustrates clearly why REDD offset projects will neither address climate change nor stop deforestation. The report, “Carbon Scam: Noel Kempff Climate Action Project and the Push for Sub-national Forest Offsets”, looks in detail at the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project in Bolivia.

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The Nature Conservancy: Forest offsets more important than emissions reduction targets

Posted on 5 June 200914 July 2017

We know what The Nature Conservancy thinks about forest offsets. It loves them. It loves them so much that it has got into bed with the biggest coal-burner in the US, American Electric Power. Meanwhile, TNC has developed a “global mechanism proposal”, which includes a goal of 3 billion tons of “emissions reductions from REDD”…

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