Double risque

The document argues that 'net zero' promises act as a 'smoke screen' for multinational corporations to maintain fossil fuel and industrial agriculture growth. It specifically critiques 'nature-based solutions' and soil carbon sequestration as mechanisms that facilitate land grabbing, data extraction from small farmers, and the marginalization of agroecology. The report contends that these market-based approaches prioritize carbon metrics over food sovereignty and ecological justice, calling instead for a transition to agroecological systems and the abandonment of industrial food models.

• Multinational corporations use 'net zero' commitments as a 'smoke screen' to continue business-as-usual and preserve profits while accelerating climate collapse and rural inequality, rather than actually reducing emissions.
• Industrial food systems are significantly more damaging to the climate than small-scale farming; they are estimated to represent between 44% and 57% of emissions, while small farmers feed 70% of the global population using only 25% of resources.
• Nature-based carbon offsetting is fundamentally flawed because it assumes a chemical equivalence between different types of carbon, ignoring that soil and plant carbon storage is unstable and temporary compared to the long-term storage of fossil carbon.
• Soil carbon sequestration programs are being used by agribusiness and IT multinationals (such as Bayer, Cargill, and Microsoft) as a means of 'disguised data collection,' using mobile apps to gather soil fertility data and lock small farmers into restrictive contracts.
• There is a strategic effort to co-opt agroecology by framing it as a 'nature-based solution,' which the report argues weakens its transformative potential by integrating it into the industrial system it is meant to oppose.
• The scale of land required for corporate nature-based promises is immense; for example, Nestlé's ambition would require planting trees on at least 4.4 million hectares annually, and Shell's 1.5°C pathway requires an area close to the size of Brazil.

APA

Kill, J., Chandrasekaran, K., Drago, M., & Race, M. (2022). Double risque. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ati-double-risque-resume-FR.pdf

Chicago

Kill, Jutta, Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Martin Drago, and Madeleine Race. Double risque. Friends of the Earth International, 2022. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ati-double-risque-resume-FR.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{kill2022double, author = {Kill, Jutta and Chandrasekaran, Kirtana and Drago, Martin and Race, Madeleine}, title = {{Double risque}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2022}, month = nov, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ati-double-risque-resume-FR.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }