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.
Carbon Dioxide Removal Narrative is Greenwashing Monoculture Tree Plantations
Guest article by Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Oli Munnion, Global Forest Coalition Despite the evidence exposing the harms of monoculture plantations to communities, water resources, biodiversity and the climate, proponents of ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’ (CDR) continue...
