Funny Business?

News the Dutch Green Business Group have appointed Nigel Farage to its advisory board, sets off alarms (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/28/nigel-farage-appointed-to-advisory-board-of-green-finance-firm). The Dutch Green Business Group's primary focus appears to be the carbon offsetting industry. Its basic principle seems to be that anything, no matter how environmentally problematic, can be rendered 'carbon neutral' by planting trees. Planting trees is a good idea but it needs to be combined with reductions in activities with large carbon footprints. Otherwise, carbon offsetting is likely to be a pot of 'greenwash'. Mr Farage is a long-established climate change sceptic. He may have political connections but many of those are distinctly 'dodgy'. He is certainly not the kind of person to reassure people that the Dutch Green Business Group are truly trying to 'cure' the climate emergency.