Mar 3, 2023 | Actions / Protest, Deforestation, Energy, False Solutions, False Solutions to Climate Change, Forests & Plantations, Greenwashing, Press Coverage, Protests & Resistance, Rainforest, REDD, Social Media News, Take Action!, Tree Plantations, Tree Plantations
Mongabay: France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport France has requested an exemption that would allow the European Space Agency and French Space Agency to construct and operate two biomass power plants in French Guiana. To...
Nov 9, 2022 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Carbon Markets, Offsets & REDD, Carbon Trading, Climate Justice, False Solutions, False Solutions to Climate Change, Featured, Greenwashing, REDD, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
The U.S. Is Presenting a Bad, Distracting Plan at U.N. Climate Talks Climate envoy John Kerry has proposed relying on carbon credits to fund renewable energy in developing countries. What that really means is that the U.S. doesn’t want to pay up. Source: The New...
Aug 1, 2022 | Carbon Markets, Offsets & REDD, REDD, Social Media News
Carbon commodification in the Peruvian Amazon: The Kichwa People’s Struggle Against Territorial and Climate Destruction Radical Ecological Democracy 1 Aug 2022 As the consequences of climate change continue to upend people’s lives all over the world, the feeble...
May 23, 2022 | False Solutions to Climate Change, Land Grabs, REDD, Social Media News
Press release: Stop the Racist Conservation Model! World Rainforest Movement 20 May 2022 From 24-29 May, 2022, IUCN’s 2nd Asia Parks Congress aims to set the agenda for Protected Areas in Asia for the next ten years. For big conservation NGOs, the UN, corporations,...
May 11, 2022 | Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Forests, Green Economy, Land Grabs, REDD
Note: Yes, deforestation needs to be addresssed–and NOT through the development of massive-scale industrial monoculture tree plantations, but by addressing deforestation at its very source–namely agro-industrial expansion, especially of GMO crops,...
May 18, 2021 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Featured, REDD, Social Media News
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD Project: EasyJet’s phantom carbon credits are generated by logging the forest By Chris Lang 14 May 2021 “It’s a scam. Neither planting trees nor avoiding deforestation will make a flight carbon neutral.” That’s Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho,...