Category Archives: Greenwashing
Rio+20: Guide Document on Convergence Plenary and People’s Assembly
Note: Here is a statement from the organizers of the alternative Peoples’ Summit that will occur in Rio around the time of the official UN Rio+20 (corporate sell-out) Summit. People from around the world are coming together to talk about … Continue reading
Report from the International Joint People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in Rio
For the unity and mobilization of the people in defense of life and the common good, social justice and environmental against the commodification of nature and “green economy” Rio de Janeiro, May 12, 2012 A month before the UN Conference … Continue reading
Sign on: International Organizations Condemn IKEA’s Logging of Russia’s Old-growth Forests
May 16th, 2012 The Swedish-owned international furniture retailer, IKEA, is logging old-growth forests and other high conservation value forests in Russian Karelia[1] through its subsidiary Swedwood. A petition has been launched by Swedish NGO Protect the Forest to help change IKEA and … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Biodiversity, Forests and Climate Change, Greenwashing, Land Grabs
No more evictions! Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala in defense of nature, lands and territories.
Note: Evictions of community farmers from UC Berkeley land, peasants thrown off of their land all over the world for agrofuel feedstock production, deforestation, forest “protection,” large-scale hydroelectric projects, etc. It’s time for the end of neoliberalism, private property and … Continue reading
‘UN Global Compact turns a blind eye to corporate malpractices’ Civil Society Statement raises concerns in run up to Rio Conference
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project will be attending the UN Rio+20 conference and the alternative Peoples’ Summit this June. We will feature daily coverage of events both inside the UN talks and outside at the alternative forum from June 15th … Continue reading
WWF scandal (part 3): Embezzlement and evictions in Tanzania
Note: More on WWF and their nefarious doings, this time from an ally–not a climate denier… –The GJEP Team By Chris Lang, 9th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor WWF is embroiled in a two-part scandal over its work in Tanzania. … Continue reading
Brazil: Peoples’ Alternative Summit to Boycott Gov’t “Dialogues” prior to Rio+20 Summit
Note: Climate Connections will be in Rio in June to cover the activities inside and outside of the Rio+20 Summit and the Peoples’ Alternative Summit. Against the Green Economy and the Commodification of Nature! –The GJEP Team The Summit will … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, Green Economy, Greenwashing, Rio+20
Statement: The Peoples’ Summit of the Americas vs the UN Rio+20 Summit
Statement of Teotihuacan 2012 Cross-Posted from the Red Ecologista Autónoma de la Cuenca de México lunes 7 de mayo de 2012 The Peoples’ Summit, parallel to the United Nations Rio+20 Summit, 20 years after Rio92 – the so-called United Nations … Continue reading
Amid Brazil’s Rush to Develop, Workers Resist–Strikes and sabotage at new hydroelectric dam
Note: Social and Ecological injustice united under the greenwashed banner of so-called “sustainable development” and “clean energy”. Brazil will be home to the upcoming Rio+20 Earth Summit–where the so-called “Green Economy” (more of this unjust business as usual development cloaked … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Climate Change, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Greenwashing, Water
Hundreds of NGO’s slam WWF for “greenwashing”
Cross-posted from Intrafish Media Organizations across continents say the WWF did not involve stakeholders in shrimp farming standards development. Hundreds of NGOs in Asia, Latin America, Africa, North America and Europe are protesting against World Wildlife Fund, purporting the organization … Continue reading
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