Today we are disrupting The Nature Action Dialogues conference hosted at Jesus College.

This conference is hosted by the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)  and their Proteus Partnership and listed attendees include Ipieca, HSBC, Drax, Nestle, AngloAmerican and RWE.

Through the Proteus Partnership the UN helps oil and gas and mining companies to greenwash their harmful extractive practices whist providing no real influence on the behaviour of these companies. This is evidenced from BPs recent rollback of their climate and renewables targets.

Members of the Proteus Partnership include BP, Shell, Total Energies, Chevron, RioTinto, Equinor and AngloAmerican. 

Drax power station has also just been granted huge new subsidies for burning trees despite recording massive profits. Drax’s wood burning is classed as ‘renewable’ energy despite being the UK’s largest carbon emitter and the worlds largest wood burning power station. Almost all of the wood burned at Drax is imported and has included old growth forest wood from Canada and wood from protected forests in Estonia

By continuing to pretend that companies like those directly or indirectly represented at this conference will sacrifice profits and power to act on the climate and to stop the harm they are causing globally Cambridge is sustaining ecocide, neo-colonial violence, land theft and human rights violations world wide. 

On this theme, today ORCA is launching our new campaign against CISL (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability leadership), the university’s greenwashing outfit. CISL works with many of the harmful corporations here today and many more and is responsible for supporting and sustaining the harm they have caused and are causing today through lending them the perceived prestige of Cambridge University and giving the appearance of caring about climate collapse.