Oil Company funds UN / more News
Category: general,
Source: info,
Language: en,
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new
. UNDP Colombia had announced a new private sector partnership to implement a program called “United for Territorial Reactivation” funded by the Chile based oil company Geopark. GeoPark is accused of environmental devastation and support for illegal paramilitary groups that were threatening the grassroots Amazon defenders. After mounting opposition UNDP Colombia has begun to scrub their social media timelines of any reference to the GeoPark deal but UNDP has not yet announced a cancellation of the agreement.
- Pacific Climate Warriors around Australia called on the Morrison Government to Fund our Future NOT Gas. The majority of Australians don’t want public money handed to oil and gas companies who will damage the land, water, and climate.
- The right wing government in Colombia has confronted anti neoliberal demonstrants with disproportionate violance.
- Climate Strikers Mobilise Globally to Demand #NoMoreEmptyPromises. ‘Actual emission reductions and net emission reductions are not the same, as the latter allows for compensation of continued emissions with insecure methods, such as tree planting, and are reliant on technology that frankly doesn’t exist in the scale required. Scientists clearly state that what we need isn’t meaningless net zero targets filled with loopholes.’ see also: the Guardian.
- demands for no more coal in Bangladesh