Big Polluters, carbon offsetting, and REDD: Climate change denial and carbon offsetting have the same purpose – to allow Big Polluters to continue profiting from business as usual for as long as possible.
Tag: UNFCCC
The Glasgow Declaration on Forests is far from “unprecedented”. It’s just another in a long line of meaningless UN declarations
Why the Glasgow Declaration on Forests isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
“Tomorrow it will be too late to do what we should have done a long time ago”
Fidel Castro’s speech at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro is more relevant than ever.
“Developed countries want to wipe out history”: Meena Raman, Friends of the Earth Malaysia
Friends of the Earth International held a press conference at the COP24 UN climate meeting in Katowice earlier today. Last year, at COP23 in Bonn, Meena Raman of Friends of the Earth Malaysia said, “We come every year to the COP feeling like a broken record.”
The IPCC’s climate change report: “Negative emissions” and business as usual
The IPCC’s climate change report on the impacts of 1.5°C global warming tells us we have to reduce emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, and 100% by 2050.