On 21 March, the International Day of Forests, 200 organizations have petitioned the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) stating that its forest definition dating back to 1948 is “misleading” and must be changed. According to the petition signatories, the FAO definition has allowed the plantations industry to hide the “devastating ecological and social impacts of large-scale monoculture tree plantations” behind a positive forest image.
Brazil’s GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms
By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California Brazil's Expanding "Green Deserts" Picture a desert: hot, dry, and teeming with drought-resistant life. Now, think about what...
