Over the last 40 years, the fossil fuel industry “has perpetrated a multi-decade, multi-billion dollar disinformation, propaganda and lobbying campaign to delay climate action”. Key to these campaigns was to “reposition global…
Biodiversity
On 6 September 2023 it was announced that 27 of the world’s largest nature conservation organisations, institutes, business and finance coalitions have joined forces to launch a new initiative aimed at driving…
The simple answer is yes, because of the common interests of shareholders and executives. With biodiversity in peril from overexploitation and the continued destruction of natural environments for agriculture and housing, there…
The world has got used to an annual conference discussing the climate crisis, but the sister conference tackling biodiversity loss is almost an unknown. The conference of the Convention on Biological Diversity…
Many stakeholders who profit from the ‘sustainable’ use of wild species benefit from having people believe that the sustainable use model is the only way to save the natural world. It is…
Some conservationists felt a sense of relief to hear President Macron’s “end of abundance, the end of insouciance, the end of assumptions” speech, at the French government’s first cabinet meeting after the…
This is Part III of a 3-part series. Go to: Part I, Part II The aim of the powerful today is not to restore balance with nature or to re-discover the divine in nature.…
This is Part II of a 3-part series. Go to: Part I, Part III A recent book “Theology and Climate Change” by Paul Tyson examines this question of the origins of our current guiding…
This is Part I of a 3-part series. Go to: Part II, Part III Looking at our relentless overexploitation of nature and especially of biodiversity, we have to ask the question: “How…
In 2019, the primary intergovernmental body monitoring biodiversity (IBPES) reported that 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. It also confirmed that direct exploitation for trade is the most…