Press conference
On the eve of a vital UN moment for biodiversity, “nature-based solutions” are once again wrongly touted as the solution.
Nature-based solutions” promote the illusion that plants and soils can undo the damage to the climate caused by carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. This is a dangerous deception and serves as a front for the “net zero” promises of governments and companies. Instead of accepting the drastic emissions reductions needed to prevent climate chaos, they make the false and inaccurate claims that “nature” will remove enough excess carbon from the atmosphere to avert catastrophe.
While corporations and governments push “nature-based solutions” to combat the climate and biodiversity crisis, more than 360 organisations launched a statement denouncing them as “nature-based dispossessions” that will involve huge new land grabs and promote harmful practices such as monoculture tree plantations and industrial agriculture.
At the press conference on 15 March, participants from Gabon, Brazil, India and the US will recount the experiences of communities with REDD projects (precursors to “nature-based solutions”) at the Green Economy Lab in Acre, Brazil; share why Gabon is saying No to the gigantic land grab of the Grande Mayumba project; and how India wants to impose the Boomitra soil carbon sequestration system.
Asia/Europe press conference: 15 March (Tuesday) .16: 00 Jakarta / Bangkok / 14:30 Delhi / 10:00 CET / 9:00 GMT.
Americas press conference: 15 March (Tuesday) 12:00 noon EST / 11:00 AM Mexico City / 09:00 AM Pacific / 14:00 Montevideo.
Alianza Biodiversidad, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), ETC group, Focus on the Global South, GRAIN, Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), Indigenous Climate Action (ICA), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), World Rainforest Movement (WRM)
