REDD+ FANGS BITE WIDENS

REDD+ FANGS BITE WIDENS

The scourge of false solutions spreads even more and yet again African forests and lands are bearing the brunt of it. While multinationals are quick to invest millions of dollars in greenwashing schemes, they were conspicuously silent and refused to contribute to the...
Anatomy of a ‘Nature-Based Solution’: Total oil, 40,000 hectares of disappearing African savannah, Emmanuel Macron, Norwegian and French ‘aid’ to an election-rigging dictator, trees to burn, secret contacts, and dumbstruck conservationists

Anatomy of a ‘Nature-Based Solution’: Total oil, 40,000 hectares of disappearing African savannah, Emmanuel Macron, Norwegian and French ‘aid’ to an election-rigging dictator, trees to burn, secret contacts, and dumbstruck conservationists

On 16 March 2021, Total – the French company ranked seventh globally for production of oil – announced plans to plant a “40,000 hectare forest” in the Republic of Congo, the aim of which is to “sequester more than 10 million tons of CO2 over 20 years”. The company...