by John Mullinder | Aug 30, 2024 | Deforestation, FAO, Greenwash, Paper packaging,, UN Biodiversity
The United Nations Biodiversity office in Montreal has responded quickly to a blog I wrote accusing it of spreading lies about deforestation. But it hasn’t explained why it favoured poorly sourced and decade-old data over current and far more credible UN data. The...
by John Mullinder | Aug 23, 2024 | Deforestation, FAO, Greenwash, Paper packaging,, UN Biodiversity
This is a story about the United Nations Biodiversity office in Montreal posting information on the internet that it should know is false and misleading, and which severely undercuts the hard-earned reputation and credibility of the UN as a whole. No one denies that...
by John Mullinder | Feb 5, 2024 | Canada, Deforestation, Deforestation Rates, Global Deforestation, Logging Scars
As the author of a book on deforestation in Canada, I feel I have some qualification to comment on recent claims made by an alliance of environmental groups that the federal government is “spinning” the truth on this...
by John Mullinder | Oct 26, 2023 | Canada, Deforestation, Paper packaging,, trees cut down
The paper packaging industry is coming under increasing scrutiny as paper alternatives begin to replace many plastic formats. Are paper products a better alternative? That usually depends on what you mean by “better.” Because there are literally hundreds of ways of...
by John Mullinder | Aug 10, 2023 | Authors, Canada, Deforestation, Ethics
The goal of journalism is supposedly to search for the truth, and journalists are meant to both research and present as many sides of a story as possible. This sometimes does not happen. A case in point is the article I commented on back in March[i] When does...
by John Mullinder | Mar 24, 2023 | Canada, Deforestation, Ethics, Greenwashing, Journalism
When a four-part series of articles by Stefan Labbé of Glacier Media popped into my inbox recently, I was intrigued. Here was “a months-long investigation into Paper Excellence, a B.C.-headquartered pulp and paper company that has quickly grown to control (his word)...
