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No, Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum was not “pretty good”
Some thoughts on Carney’s “a rupture, not a transition” speech.
 • Chris Lang
DiEM25: “We reject the World Economic Forum as a fortress of authoritarian power”
“Reproducing a capitalist, patriarchal, warmongering and neo-colonial economy built on exclusion and the relentless extraction of life.”
 • Chris Lang
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.
 • Chris Lang
Biodiversity credits: A “new form of green colonization plundering agricultural land for the benefit of financialization”
Via Campesina, Confédération Paysanne, and more than 270 civil society organisations and academics oppose biodiversity credits and offsets.
 • Chris Lang
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees
Four years after Benioff announced the trillion trees initiative, Bloomberg takes a look at how it's going.
 • Chris Lang
No, the World Economic Forum is not coming for your coffee
A journey down a WEF rabbit hole.
 • Chris Lang
“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.
 • Chris Lang
Sadhguru: How not to save soil
In March 2022, an Indian mystic called Sadhguru set off from London on a 30,000 kilometre motorbike journey to Coimbatore, India.
 • Chris Lang
A trillion trees: A backstory featuring Felix Finkbeiner and Thomas Crowther
“I hate that people keep asking me: where are you going to plant these trillion trees?” Thomas Crowther told The Guardian recently.
 • Chris Lang
Ten pitfalls of massive tree planting campaigns like the World Economic Forum’s trillion trees initiative
Scientists, corporations, mystics, and movie stars have convinced policymakers around the world that a massive campaign to plant trees should be an…
 • Chris Lang
Greenpeace rejects the one trillion trees campaign: “Treewashing the climate crisis with promises of large tree plantations”
“Planting trees is now advocated by a wide range of stake-holders, often in the form of large-scale, monoculture tree plantations.
 • Chris Lang
One trillion trees. A naive and dangerous distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
At its meeting in Davos last month, the World Economic Forum launched a new initiative to plant one trillion trees.
 • Chris Lang
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