Greenwashing infrastructure – Bill Laurance

Prof Bill Laurance, Director of the Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) based at James Cook University, in an article published in The Conversation, “The world’s forests will collapse if we don’t learn to say ‘no’”, has drawn attention to the ongoing destruction of the world’s forests. Prof Laurance has an extensive list of scholarly and semi-popular publications to his name, including an editorial in Nature on the damage being caused by infrastructure in developing countries, notably in Amazonia and by China’s Belt and Road initiative of more than 7000 projects. Nature has granted permission to the Society to republish this article through the following link:  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07348-3 .

He is Director of ALERT, the Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers and Thinkers, an international collaboration with a regular newsletter.

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