Engaging Female Narration for Climate Action Infographic Documentary
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You've probably never heard of the task force on nature related financial disclosures. TNF D but it threatens to be the next frontier in corporate greenwashing on nature and it could even shape future laws. Greenwashing is where a company deceives people into thinking that it is doing more to protect the environment than it really is every day. Communities across the planet are working to defend and care for the world's nature and biodiversity with indigenous peoples, women and marginalized genders, often taking the lead, scientists are sounding the alarm that threat to biodiversity are so severe that whole ecosystems are at risk of collapsing. But the biodiversity crisis is also a human rights crisis. We rely on these ecosystems for clean water, healthy food, shelter and culture. Each year hundreds of people are killed and silenced for speaking out to protect their lands, water and nature from extractive industries like mining and logging, unsustainable livestock farming and large scale agriculture and timber monocultures. Many activists have been calling for new laws to hold businesses responsible for the harms they cause, and for more resources to protect marginalized communities whose lands and rights are under attack. The TNF D claims to be part of the solution, but is it The task force? A group of 30 for large corporations, including many with a terrible track record in environmental issues, is built on the claim that more self reporting by companies is key to solving the biodiversity crisis. This task force is writing the framework on what a business should report on this. Corporate task force has decided that while a business should know its impacts on biodiversity, it only needs to report on them if they significantly affect its profitability. If it thinks that destroying forests or threatening endangered species won't hurt its profits, these harms wouldn't have to be reported and the business will get away with it, not just that, but under the TNF Di framework, a business will not have to report on its actual or potential impact to nature. It's human rights risks or impacts the location of its operations, supply chains or financing complaints made against it. A key part of showing if a business is, environmental claims are sincere, whether it's lobbying against new laws that better protect nature and people. This is a major greenwashing red flag. While TNF D reporting is voluntary now corporations are pushing for it to be mandatory at national and international levels. This would put a handful of global corporations in charge of writing the template of our future laws which could be extremely dangerous for nature. And people N. G. O. S. Are deeply concerned that a few key U. N. Agencies are backing the TNF D. As it is contrary to their obligations to uphold human rights and fair evidence based decision making to end the biodiversity crisis. We need to give less power to global corporations, not more, we need to support rights based gender just and socially equitable solutions led by the people protecting the earth's precious biodiversity