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The biodiversity funding gap “is a dangerous way to approach debates about what is needed to transform societies to improve nature…
In an interview with Acción Ecológica, Andre Standing explains what’s wrong with the whole idea of a US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap.
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World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund are greenwashing the livestock industry
“It’s pretty obvious that the industry is using them, and whether willing or not, they’re letting themselves be used.”
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“If no one had ever said, ‘Plant a trillion trees,’ I think we’d have been in a lot better space”
Says Thomas Crowther, AKA Mr. Trillion Trees himself
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The claim that “Carbon credits could generate US$82 billion” per year in Africa is based on a made in the USA fairy tale
Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, keeps telling us that Africa could earn US$82 billion a year from carbon…
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New report reveals that a majority of the board members of big conservation NGOs are linked to the finance industry
"The finance industry’s mission is profit – including from the financialisation of conservation"
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“Carbon offsets are bullshit”: Cory Doctorow
“The theory behind carbon offsets is that markets created the climate emergency, so markets will solve it.
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How REDD greenwashes Glencore’s coal mining operations in Colombia
“I have had many dialogues with our relatives within the Amazonian forests that they call, the ‘living forests’.
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Launched at COP25, IETA’s Markets for Natural Climate Solutions is greenwash for the oil industry
On 5 December 2019, at COP25 in Madrid, the International Emissions Trading Association held a side event to launch its Markets for Natural Climate…
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Chris Lang
Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?
By Chris Lang (REDD-Monitor) and Simon Counsell (Rainforest Foundation UK)
Shell and Natural Climate Solutions: US$300 million for carbon offsets
“There is no single solution to tackling climate change.
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Is the new Natural Climate Solutions campaign a distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground?
Earlier this week, an international group of more than 20 campaigners wrote a letter to The Guardian in support of natural climate solutions.
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How EcoPlanet Bamboo duped World Resources Institute and The Nature Conservancy
A recent article by Angeli Mehta on the website Ethical Corporation reports on a “young company” called EcoPlanet Bamboo.
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