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Gabriel Labbate’s carbon market fallacies
The Global Team Leader of the UN-REDD programme at UNEP is promoting a false solution to the climate crisis.
Nov 15
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Gabriel Labbate’s carbon market fallacies
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The US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap is a “bogus figure devised by US conservation corporations in collaboration with investment…
An unpublished letter to The Guardian.
Nov 12
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The US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap is a “bogus figure devised by US conservation corporations in collaboration with investment banks to promote private investment and market-based mechanisms”
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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.
Nov 4
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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 conservation”
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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.”
Aug 15
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World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund are greenwashing the livestock industry
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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
Dec 21, 2023
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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”
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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…
Dec 11, 2023
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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
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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"
Aug 28, 2023
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New report reveals that a majority of the board members of big conservation NGOs are linked to the finance industry
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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.
Feb 9, 2022
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“Carbon offsets are bullshit”: Cory Doctorow
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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’.
Jan 21, 2021
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How REDD greenwashes Glencore’s coal mining operations in Colombia
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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…
Dec 11, 2019
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Launched at COP25, IETA’s Markets for Natural Climate Solutions is greenwash for the oil industry
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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)
Jul 4, 2019
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Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?
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Shell and Natural Climate Solutions: US$300 million for carbon offsets
“There is no single solution to tackling climate change.
Apr 19, 2019
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Shell and Natural Climate Solutions: US$300 million for carbon offsets
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