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Shell REDD project slammed by Indigenous Environmental Network and Friends of the Earth Nigeria

Chris Lang — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:04:39 +0000

In August 2010, the Rimba Raya conservation project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia hit the headlines. “Indonesia project boosts global forest CO2 market,” Reuters reported. But there’s a catch. Two companies that are responsible for vast greenhouse gas emissions are involved in the project: Shell and Gazprom. Yesterday, Friends of the Earth Nigeria and the Indigenous Environmental [...]

REDD in the Mekong Region

Chris Lang — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:57:25 +0000

Last month I was invited to speak at a workshop titled, “Food, Livelihoods and Climate Change in the Mekong Region“. I was asked to give an introduction to REDD and an overview of some of the REDD projects and actors in the Mekong Region. The workshop was organised by Focus on the Global South together [...]

REDD in the news: 30 August – 5 September 2010

REDD-Monitor — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:34:20 +0000

A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly. Quantifying the impacts of the quality of governance on deforestation By Chisa Umemiya, Ewald Rametsteiner and Florian Kraxner, Environmental Science and Policy, 3 August [...]

Via Campesina rejects REDD and carbon trading

Chris Lang — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:50:07 +0000

Vía Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. It is a coalition of around 150 organisations, with an estimated 300 million members. Vía Campesina recently put out a statement about COP-16 in Cancún. The statement rejects REDD, geoengineering (including biochar and genetically [...]

“Our forest is not for sale!” NGO statement on REDD in Nigeria

Chris Lang — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:44:38 +0000

On 18 August 2010, Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth Nigeria, the country’s leading environment group) organised a meeting on REDD in Nigeria, together with the Rainforest Research Development and GREENCODE. The meeting produced a statement, signed by 18 NGOs. “Forests and REDD must be out of carbon markets,” is the first of a [...]

Social Forum of the Americas rejects REDD. Oh, and capitalism

Chris Lang — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:42:37 +0000

From 11-15 August 2010, the fourth Social Forum of the Americas took place in Asuncion, in Paraguay. The forum started with a march through the city, with about five thousand people taking part. Viá Campesina organised a campground for the rural communities from Paraguay who made up about half of those present. About three hundred [...]

REDD in the news: 23-29 August 2010

REDD-Monitor — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:24:05 +0000

A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly. CIFOR Releases 2011-2013 Plan of Work Climate-L.org, August 2010 | On enhancing the role of forests in climate mitigation, CIFOR anticipates identifying policies and [...]

Shift2Neutral’s big REDD deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Chris Lang — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:55:53 +0000

The Australian carbon trading company Shift2Neutral aims to become “the leading neutraliser of carbon emissions in the world”. The company appeared to come closer realising its aim this week when Reuters reported that Shift2Neutral “signed a deal aimed at protecting tropical forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as boosting renewable energy there”. [...]

Norway’s pension fund has disinvested from Barama. What does this mean for REDD in Guyana?

Chris Lang — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:58:00 +0000

On 23 August 2010, Norway’s Finance Ministry announced that the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) had blacklisted the Malaysian logging giant Samling from its portfolio. The decision was made after a review by the Norwegian Council of Ethics of Samling and two Israeli companies. Barama, one of the biggest logging companies operating in Guyana, is [...]

REDD in the news: 16-22 August 2010

Chris Lang — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:49:29 +0000

A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly. Alternatives to Slash and Burn Partnership Releases Policy Brief on REDD+ in Indonesia Climate-L.org, August 2010 | The Alternatives to Slash and Burn Partnership [...]