by John Mullinder | Dec 10, 2024 | Brandowners, Canopy, Greenwash, Media, Paper packaging,
“Greenwash” is a popular word these days. Companies and even whole industries are constantly in the news for making false or misleading claims about their products or services. And government promises and actions on environmental issues are now being scrutinised like...
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 | Jul 10, 2024 | Canada, Greenwash, Killing and Saving Trees
What exactly does this mean? To be human, it seems, is to be a hypocrite. We kill trees all the time, and have done so for thousands of years. Same with fish, chickens, goats, sheep, cows – you name it. Sure, we may call it harvesting or farming or some less...
by John Mullinder | Oct 15, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Well not all of them yet. But I am honoured to summarise some very positive reviews of my recently published book: Deforestation in Canada and Other Fake News. Here’s a selection of them. For full review go to the Reviews page here. “The first chapters set out clear,...
