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A new investigation looks behind the hype of land-based geoengineering in Brazil.
It connects carbon markets, GE eucalyptus, & the expansion of Suzano’s pulp plantations to impacts on Quilombola communities.
https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-eucalyptus-boom
#StopGETrees
It connects carbon markets, GE eucalyptus, & the expansion of Suzano’s pulp plantations to impacts on Quilombola communities.
https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-eucalyptus-boom
#StopGETrees
Brazil's GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms - Geoengineering Monitor
By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM
A new investigation looks behind the hype of land-based geoengineering in Brazil.
It connects carbon markets, GE eucalyptus, & the expansion of Suzano’s pulp plantations to impacts on Quilombola communities.
https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-eucalyptus-boom
#StopGETrees
It connects carbon markets, GE eucalyptus, & the expansion of Suzano’s pulp plantations to impacts on Quilombola communities.
https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-eucalyptus-boom
#StopGETrees
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Article published by @geoengmon.bsky.social shows the harm done by GE eucalyptus plantations by Suzano subsidiary FuturaGene and their efforts to profiteer from them via carbon trading:
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-e...
#stopgetrees #NoGeoengineering
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#stopgetrees #NoGeoengineering
Brazil's GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms - Geoengineering Monitor
By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Article published by @geoengmon.bsky.social shows the harm done by GE eucalyptus plantations by Suzano subsidiary FuturaGene and their efforts to profiteer from them via carbon trading:
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-e...
#stopgetrees #NoGeoengineering
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#stopgetrees #NoGeoengineering
🚨 New Geoengineering Monitor guest article on GE trees is out! Brazil’s GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-e...
#StopGETrees #climatejustice #nogeoengineering
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#StopGETrees #climatejustice #nogeoengineering
Brazil's GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms - Geoengineering Monitor
By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM
🚨 New Geoengineering Monitor guest article on GE trees is out! Brazil’s GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-e...
#StopGETrees #climatejustice #nogeoengineering
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#StopGETrees #climatejustice #nogeoengineering
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New @geoengmon.bsky.social article on #GMO trees: Brazil’s GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-e...
February 4, 2026 at 12:19 PM
New @geoengmon.bsky.social article on #GMO trees: Brazil’s GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/brazils-ge-e...
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Carbon capture is like farting in your underwear. Eventually, it escapes into the atmosphere with dire consequences.
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Carbon capture is like farting in your underwear. Eventually, it escapes into the atmosphere with dire consequences.
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Read the full article from Senior Research Associate Ketan Joshi on The Point ⤵️
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Part two: The false promise of carbon capture and storage
Despite the best efforts of climate and accountability campaigners, Australia’s major political parties have not stopped pushing the false promise of carbon capture and storage.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Read the full article from Senior Research Associate Ketan Joshi on The Point ⤵️
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Chevron's Gorgon CCS project is the biggest and ‘best’ carbon and capture project in the world.
Gas processed there emits 36x more than the CO2 stored.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
Gas processed there emits 36x more than the CO2 stored.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Chevron's Gorgon CCS project is the biggest and ‘best’ carbon and capture project in the world.
Gas processed there emits 36x more than the CO2 stored.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
Gas processed there emits 36x more than the CO2 stored.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol
📣 READ & SHARE | Latest Geoengineering Monitor Newsletter (también disponible en español)
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🧭 A must-read round-up of recent articles you may have missed, unpacking what COP30 in Brazil really delivered — and what it means for climate justice in 2026.
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🧭 A must-read round-up of recent articles you may have missed, unpacking what COP30 in Brazil really delivered — and what it means for climate justice in 2026.
Multilateralism bows out as carbon market proponents take the stage at UN climate talks in Brazil - Geoengineering Monitor
Geoengineering Monitor newsletter December 2025
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January 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
📣 READ & SHARE | Latest Geoengineering Monitor Newsletter (también disponible en español)
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🧭 A must-read round-up of recent articles you may have missed, unpacking what COP30 in Brazil really delivered — and what it means for climate justice in 2026.
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/dec-2025-new...
🧭 A must-read round-up of recent articles you may have missed, unpacking what COP30 in Brazil really delivered — and what it means for climate justice in 2026.
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Anyone who has the ability to block out sunlight has the beginnings of a very potent weapon system that could be used to coerce and attack countries or even entire regions.
Countries have gone to war over much, much less. #solar #geoengineering #SRM #security #defence #weaponisation
Countries have gone to war over much, much less. #solar #geoengineering #SRM #security #defence #weaponisation
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Anyone who has the ability to block out sunlight has the beginnings of a very potent weapon system that could be used to coerce and attack countries or even entire regions.
Countries have gone to war over much, much less. #solar #geoengineering #SRM #security #defence #weaponisation
Countries have gone to war over much, much less. #solar #geoengineering #SRM #security #defence #weaponisation
El empresario reconoce que esta gestión de la radiación solar (SRM, por sus siglas en inglés) todavía no está lista para usarse y que su aplicación solo se justificaría como "último recurso". Sin embargo, su propuesta genera muchas preguntas panampost.com/oriana-rivas...
Último delirio ambientalista: Bill Gates quiere apagar el sol
Gates usa el argumento del cambio climático para emitir nuevas declaraciones que estarían relacionadas con su intención de "apagar el sol".
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December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
El empresario reconoce que esta gestión de la radiación solar (SRM, por sus siglas en inglés) todavía no está lista para usarse y que su aplicación solo se justificaría como "último recurso". Sin embargo, su propuesta genera muchas preguntas panampost.com/oriana-rivas...
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New paper out today led by Martin Siegert with about 40 others where we argue that some of the proposed Polar #Geoengineering schemes for ice sheets, sea ice and solar radiation are potentially dangerous and unethical.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects
Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
New paper out today led by Martin Siegert with about 40 others where we argue that some of the proposed Polar #Geoengineering schemes for ice sheets, sea ice and solar radiation are potentially dangerous and unethical.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
👎 Stratospheric aerosol injection
👎 Sea curtains
👎 Sea ice management
👎 Basal water removal
👎 Ocean fertilization
None of these #geoengineering ideas can be relied upon to safeguard the poles—pursuing them risks distracting from the solutions we know will work www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
👎 Sea curtains
👎 Sea ice management
👎 Basal water removal
👎 Ocean fertilization
None of these #geoengineering ideas can be relied upon to safeguard the poles—pursuing them risks distracting from the solutions we know will work www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
5 geoengineering ideas and why they will not save the poles
Various geoengineering projects seek to mask or slow the impact of global warming at the poles, but do not hold up to scrutiny. Two scientists outline why.
www.weforum.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
👎 Stratospheric aerosol injection
👎 Sea curtains
👎 Sea ice management
👎 Basal water removal
👎 Ocean fertilization
None of these #geoengineering ideas can be relied upon to safeguard the poles—pursuing them risks distracting from the solutions we know will work www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
👎 Sea curtains
👎 Sea ice management
👎 Basal water removal
👎 Ocean fertilization
None of these #geoengineering ideas can be relied upon to safeguard the poles—pursuing them risks distracting from the solutions we know will work www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
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New short report by @gfc-forest.bsky.social and @environmentalpaper.bsky.social exposes the impacts of large-scale #biomass energy, mostly for use in industry, on communities and ecosystems: globalforestcoalition.org/decarbonisat...
Decarbonisation or Dispossession? Industrial-Scale Biomass in Latin America and Its Impacts - Global Forest Coalition
As COP30 convenes in Brazil, governments and corporations are spotlighting biomass as a key part of the “green transition,” promoting it under national decarbonisation and bioeconomy agendas. The Bele...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New short report by @gfc-forest.bsky.social and @environmentalpaper.bsky.social exposes the impacts of large-scale #biomass energy, mostly for use in industry, on communities and ecosystems: globalforestcoalition.org/decarbonisat...
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Now more than ever, we need to heed warnings about overshoot pathways & follow leadership of Africa & Pacific calling for non-use of solar geoengineering. We urge our movement partners around the world to join us at this critical moment in saying: ‘Hands Off Mother Earth, No to Geoengineering.’
❗Our HOME is not a laboratory❗
📢Today in Belém, Brazil at Cúpula dos Povos (Peoples Summit), we launched our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering - a clarion call to defend Mother Earth from geoengineering.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
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📢Today in Belém, Brazil at Cúpula dos Povos (Peoples Summit), we launched our renewed Manifesto Against Geoengineering - a clarion call to defend Mother Earth from geoengineering.
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth
@ciel.org @cjaourpower.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Now more than ever, we need to heed warnings about overshoot pathways & follow leadership of Africa & Pacific calling for non-use of solar geoengineering. We urge our movement partners around the world to join us at this critical moment in saying: ‘Hands Off Mother Earth, No to Geoengineering.’
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New article from the Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement team: "Solar Geoengineering for Profit" (Spoiler -- we're against it.) www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng...
Solar geoengineering for profit - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
Advocates of solar geoengineering are dismayed. But why are they surprised?
www.solargeoeng.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New article from the Solar Geoengineering Non Use Agreement team: "Solar Geoengineering for Profit" (Spoiler -- we're against it.) www.solargeoeng.org/solar-geoeng...
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At #COP30 we're calling out #FalseSolutions for the dangerous distractions they are
"Carbon markets are a scam: they open the door for risky geoengineering experiments, fail to reduce emissions and harm communities. We must fight false solutions."
Sara Shaw FoEI
With @handsoffmotherearth.org
"Carbon markets are a scam: they open the door for risky geoengineering experiments, fail to reduce emissions and harm communities. We must fight false solutions."
Sara Shaw FoEI
With @handsoffmotherearth.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
At #COP30 we're calling out #FalseSolutions for the dangerous distractions they are
"Carbon markets are a scam: they open the door for risky geoengineering experiments, fail to reduce emissions and harm communities. We must fight false solutions."
Sara Shaw FoEI
With @handsoffmotherearth.org
"Carbon markets are a scam: they open the door for risky geoengineering experiments, fail to reduce emissions and harm communities. We must fight false solutions."
Sara Shaw FoEI
With @handsoffmotherearth.org
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#PressReleaseAlert
🌎 As COP30 and the Peoples Summit open in Belém, movements declare: Our HOME is not a laboratory ❗
🚨Geoengineering is an illusionary fix, a dangerous distraction and false solution pushed by powerful interests through carbon markets.
#HandsOffMotherEarth #COP30 #CúpulaDosPovos
🌎 As COP30 and the Peoples Summit open in Belém, movements declare: Our HOME is not a laboratory ❗
🚨Geoengineering is an illusionary fix, a dangerous distraction and false solution pushed by powerful interests through carbon markets.
#HandsOffMotherEarth #COP30 #CúpulaDosPovos
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#PressReleaseAlert
🌎 As COP30 and the Peoples Summit open in Belém, movements declare: Our HOME is not a laboratory ❗
🚨Geoengineering is an illusionary fix, a dangerous distraction and false solution pushed by powerful interests through carbon markets.
#HandsOffMotherEarth #COP30 #CúpulaDosPovos
🌎 As COP30 and the Peoples Summit open in Belém, movements declare: Our HOME is not a laboratory ❗
🚨Geoengineering is an illusionary fix, a dangerous distraction and false solution pushed by powerful interests through carbon markets.
#HandsOffMotherEarth #COP30 #CúpulaDosPovos
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Date: 10 November, 2025
Time: 10.30-11.00 AM BRT
Location: COP30 Blue Zone, Press Conference 2 Area D
You can also join us online: bit.ly/HOMEPressConCOP30
Read our media advisory for more details: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/me...
#COP30
@coveringclimatenow.org @insideclimatenews.org
Time: 10.30-11.00 AM BRT
Location: COP30 Blue Zone, Press Conference 2 Area D
You can also join us online: bit.ly/HOMEPressConCOP30
Read our media advisory for more details: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/me...
#COP30
@coveringclimatenow.org @insideclimatenews.org
Media Advisory: At COP30 Climate Justice Groups Expose Risky Geoengineering Delusions - HOME Alliance
handsoffmotherearth.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Date: 10 November, 2025
Time: 10.30-11.00 AM BRT
Location: COP30 Blue Zone, Press Conference 2 Area D
You can also join us online: bit.ly/HOMEPressConCOP30
Read our media advisory for more details: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/me...
#COP30
@coveringclimatenow.org @insideclimatenews.org
Time: 10.30-11.00 AM BRT
Location: COP30 Blue Zone, Press Conference 2 Area D
You can also join us online: bit.ly/HOMEPressConCOP30
Read our media advisory for more details: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/me...
#COP30
@coveringclimatenow.org @insideclimatenews.org
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5,000+ "fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion": www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#kickbigpollutersout #JustTransition #COP30
#kickbigpollutersout #JustTransition #COP30
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
5,000+ "fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion": www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#kickbigpollutersout #JustTransition #COP30
#kickbigpollutersout #JustTransition #COP30
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🚨 HOME Allliance press conference on 10th Nov at #COP30 🚨
At #COP30, we’re seeing dangerous techno-fixes being positioned as “solutions” to climate & biodiversity crises. Carbon markets under Article 6 are opening doors to risky experiments to enter mainstream discourse.
@foeint.bsky.social
At #COP30, we’re seeing dangerous techno-fixes being positioned as “solutions” to climate & biodiversity crises. Carbon markets under Article 6 are opening doors to risky experiments to enter mainstream discourse.
@foeint.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨 HOME Allliance press conference on 10th Nov at #COP30 🚨
At #COP30, we’re seeing dangerous techno-fixes being positioned as “solutions” to climate & biodiversity crises. Carbon markets under Article 6 are opening doors to risky experiments to enter mainstream discourse.
@foeint.bsky.social
At #COP30, we’re seeing dangerous techno-fixes being positioned as “solutions” to climate & biodiversity crises. Carbon markets under Article 6 are opening doors to risky experiments to enter mainstream discourse.
@foeint.bsky.social
Guest article ➡️ Entrenching a new era of climate colonialism: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions at COP30
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
Entrenching a new era of climate colonialism: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions at COP30 - Geoengineering Monitor
Guest article by Tamra L Gilbertson, MPH, PhD
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Guest article ➡️ Entrenching a new era of climate colonialism: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions at COP30
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
🧐 What’s up with SRM and clouds? Here’s our latest technology update on geoengineering
⛅️ Geoengineering the clouds: Solar radiation management in the lower atmosphere: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/geoengineeri...
#NoGeoengineering #SRM @solargeoeng.bsky.social
⛅️ Geoengineering the clouds: Solar radiation management in the lower atmosphere: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/geoengineeri...
#NoGeoengineering #SRM @solargeoeng.bsky.social
Geoengineering the clouds: Solar radiation management in the lower atmosphere - Geoengineering Monitor
This update on solar geoengineering in the troposphere summarises the latest developments on the Geoengineering Monitor Map, highlighting new trends for civil
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🧐 What’s up with SRM and clouds? Here’s our latest technology update on geoengineering
⛅️ Geoengineering the clouds: Solar radiation management in the lower atmosphere: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/geoengineeri...
#NoGeoengineering #SRM @solargeoeng.bsky.social
⛅️ Geoengineering the clouds: Solar radiation management in the lower atmosphere: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/geoengineeri...
#NoGeoengineering #SRM @solargeoeng.bsky.social
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Solar #geoengineering in wrong hands could wreak climate havoc, scientists warn
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, @royalsociety.org report finds
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, @royalsociety.org report finds
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Solar geoengineering in wrong hands could wreak climate havoc, scientists warn
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Solar #geoengineering in wrong hands could wreak climate havoc, scientists warn
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, @royalsociety.org report finds
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, @royalsociety.org report finds
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing.’
COP30’s Agri Zone, sponsored by Bill Gates, will be a major venue for agro-greenwashing next week. Delegates will be dazzled by Nestlé, Bayer, Yara and even Netafim, accused of involvement in Israel’s genocide economy www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/a... @bdsmovement.bsky.social @desmog.com
Agribusiness gets its turn to co-opt the climate COP in Brazil
Agribusiness has chainsawed its way over the past few decades to make Brazil the leading exporter of meats and animal
www.brasildefato.com.br
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing.’