Listening to #CRCF expert group meeting today on carbon #removals & farming, I am reminded that the carbon markets labyrinth was a creation of polluting industries to keep environmental regulation at bay... Meanwhile, the Nature Restoration Law is being killed by Council.

🔴On April 10, the European Parliament will vote the Carbon Removals Certification Framework ( #CRCF ).

The law relies on the fallacy that emissions can be 'offset' by removing carbon from the atmosphere, delaying real #ClimateAction !

Read our letter to MEPs👇 realzeroeurope.org/s/RZE_Letter_t…

Le journaliste israélien Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם révèle, sur la foi de témoignages de lanceurs d’alerte au sein de Tsahal, qu’Israël a développé une IA pour générer des listes de cibles à #Gaza , avec presque aucune vérification humaine de ce qu’a sélectionné la machine.

Il faudrait aussi des excuses pour les 171 employés UNRWA tués depuis le début des bombardements. Ils sont aussi des humanitaires. Et pour les médecins de MSF International et Médecins du Monde, et pour les journalistes, et pour les 14.000 enfants...
Et surtout un #Cessezlefeu , maintenant. #Gaza

#Enviva bankruptcy: a former employee does not think the largest global wood #pellets company can survive: it keeps losing money operating its derelict plants. Unless #biomass lobbyists manage to tap into IRA money to keep logging & burning forests...
news.mongabay.com/2024/04/enviva…

'Plusieurs reporters racontent leur difficulté à trouver des personnes acceptant de parler à la caméra de #CNews .
Au point qu’il faut ruser. Parfois, ils troquent le micro floqué CNews pour un micro #Canal +, moins connoté.'

mediapart.fr/journal/cultur…

#Gaza : the Palestinian authorities announced on Saturday that three journalists had been killed by the Israeli occupying forces: Muhammad Al-Rifi, Abdel Rahman Saima and Mahmoud Imad Issa. Never in history have so many journalists been killed in such a short space of time.

In 1970s, Nepal was facing an environmental crisis due to deforestation and degradation. Once communities started actively managing the forests, they grew back mainly as a result of natural regeneration. Today, community forests occupy nearly 2.3 million hectares—about a third of…

What is carbon capture? And why do the EU climate targets rely on it? 💭

📩 In our latest edition we discuss this controversial technology with Martin Pigeon - @[email protected] of Fern, deep diving into its limits and the risks it poses to climate 📉 ♻

Read more👉🔗thegreenfix.substack.com/p/carbon-captu…

Week 292. Today we are several people and groups protesting in Sundsvall, Sweden, outside SCA’s AGM. Forestry is Sweden's single largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and the main driving factor behind loss of habitat and species. 1/12

📢 #NatureRestorationLaw in jeopardy, this time by Belgian prime minister
👉 'Numerous sources from various Member States and NGOs indicate that De Croo & cabinet have been actively lobbying European capitals to withdraw support for the law'
Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024
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“The reindeer have survived here since the ice age, but only sixty years of today's clear-cutting, the so-called sustainable Swedish forestry model, have put them on the verge of starvation.”
Julia Rensberg & Nila Jannok i TIME
#standwithsápmi
time.com/6899748/defore…

This morning, activists demonstrated at the #Ziegler Group in Bavaria, Southern Germany, because of their expansion into Romania. It is jeopardising the last primeval forests of Europe. We need them for our survival!
robinwood.de/pressemitteilu…
#forest #Romania #Natura2000 #bioenergy

The EU has provisionally agreed the #CRCF , but as the draft includes #offsetting and supports #BECCS , it could do more harm than good. Negotiators must go back to the drawing board.

Read more by Martin Pigeon - @[email protected] in #ForestWatch 👇
fern.org/publications-i…

The wood pellet giant Drax is targeting California forests.

Plans for two industrial pellet plants would increase carbon emissions and hurt the health of rural communities, campaigners warn.

Read more in the new article from Phoebe Cooke 🔗

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Out today: Joint investigation by Conservation North, Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition and us reveals Drax sourcing wood from rare old growth and primary forests for BC pellet mills - Also, see here from BBC: bbc.com/news/science-e… #AxeDrax #biomass

Stop aux accords de libre-échange ! Pour des prix rémunérateurs ! #revenupaysan #prixplanchers #prixgarantis

Aujourd'hui, la droite et l'extrême droite ont encore prouvé qu'ils ne défendent ni la #Nature , ni les pêcheur.euse.s et les agriculteur.rice.s, 1ères victimes de l’effondrement de la biodiversité.
Heureusement, ces eurodéputé·e·s ont échoué.
#RestoreNature #Nature RestorationLaw

📈🇫🇷 FLASH - Alors que les coupes budgétaires annoncées par le #gouvernement n’étaient censées épargner personne, l'Élysée va garder ses 11% d'augmentation de budget, l’Assemblée nationale ses +6%, le Sénat ses +2% et le Conseil constitutionnel ses +34%. (Canard enchaîné)