NGOs "driven more by narrow political opportunities" than science on indirect land use change: study

November 1, 2010 |

In the UK, researchers Sarah Pilgrim and Mark Harvey, publishing in Sociological Research Online, found that in the case of indirect land use change (ILUC), “the development of NGO policy has been driven more by narrow political opportunities for influence than by broader and more coherent policy responses to global climate change or economic development, or indeed rigorous assessment of the scientific evidence.”

The explosive paper, which examines the activities of Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, RSPB, and Friends of the Earth, was  based on in-depth interviews with senior scientific directors and policy-makers in five NGOs, and of senior officials in UK government departments and the European Commission (DG Environment and DG Transport and Energy).

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