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Human rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples and the proposed “30×30” target

Chris Lang — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:37:12 +0000

Human rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples are common in fortress conservation. The 30x30 target will make things worse.

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Nature Positive: The new ‘con’ in conservation is a slogan that will only help businesses, opening the floodgates for a torrent of even more greenwashing

Chris Lang — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:06:12 +0000

Nature Positive: Simon Counsell explains how this new phrase could open the floodgates of endless corporate greenwashing.

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Guyana is to sell US$750 million carbon offsets to Hess Corporation, a US-based oil corporation that is extracting oil in Guyana. The saga of false solutions to the climate crisis continues

Chris Lang — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:47:27 +0000

Guyana is to sell US$750 million carbon offsets to Hess Corporation, one of the oil companies that is extracting oil off the coast of Guyana.

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The Frankfurt Declaration on biodiversity promotes protecting 30% of the earth, “Nature-Positive”, and offsetting. To make matters worse, it excludes Indigenous Peoples

Chris Lang — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:37:59 +0000

The Frankfurt Declaration is complicit with governments, corporations, and the conservation industry in the biggest land grab the world has ever seen.

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New statement opposing 30×30: “Target to ‘protect’ 30% of earth by 2030 – a disaster for people and bad for the planet”

Chris Lang — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:35:01 +0000

New statement opposing 30x30 from Amnesty International, Minority Rights Group International, Rainforest Foundation UK, and Survival International.

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Addressing the Amazon tipping point is more urgent than ever. REDD is not working. The worst thing we could do is trade the carbon stored in the Amazon against emissions from burning fossil fuels

Chris Lang — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:18:17 +0000

Amazon tipping point: If the Amazon tips from rainforest to savanna it would be a disaster for the people living in the forest and for the world's climate.

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Charges against Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania dropped; “Their only ‘crime’ was exercising their right to protest while security forces tried to seize land from them in the name of ‘conservation’”

Chris Lang — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:13:20 +0000

Maasai in Loliondo continue to face threats of eviction and human rights abuses - in the name of conservation.

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COP27 achieved nothing. No surprises there

Chris Lang — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:45:23 +0000

COP27 failed to come up with anything that is even remotely likely to address the climate crisis.

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Amnesty International on 30×30: “Indigenous peoples and local communities experience violence and forced eviction in the context of protected areas on a massive scale”

Chris Lang — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:08:44 +0000

Amnesty International on 30x30: A new position paper from Amnesty International highlights dangers of the CDB proposal to put 30% of the planet in protected areas by 2030.

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Climate Action Network International rejects carbon offsetting at COP27

Chris Lang — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:38:12 +0000

Climate Action Network International's position paper opposing carbon offsetting.

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