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REDD in the news: 14-20 May 2012

REDD-Monitor — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:27:41 +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.

Provincial workshop on “REDD+ and international requirement for REDD+ development and implementation”

REDD – VietNam, May 2012 | REDD+ is [...]

65 cents per hectare: The cost of land for oil palm plantations in West Papua

Chris Lang — Sun, 20 May 2012 07:34:58 +0000

An new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency and Telapak reveals that indigenous landowners in Sorong, West Papua province are being ripped off by an oil palm plantation company. The company, Kayu Lapis Indonesia Group (KLI) paid Moi landowners only US$0.65 per hectare.

The land is likely to be worth around US$5,000 [...]

MIFEE: An agribusiness attack in West Papua

Chris Lang — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:47:07 +0000

The MIFEE project, or the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate to give it its full name, is an agricultural mega-project proposed for Papua province in Indonesia. It was dreamed up as a response to the food and fuel price crises of 2008 and to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s appeal to “feed Indonesia, [...]

Indian Law Resource Center calls on UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples to improve World Bank safeguards policies

Chris Lang — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:06:05 +0000

The Indian Law Resource Center has called on the UN Permanent forum on Indigenous Issues to ensure that the World Bank implements the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

At the 11th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is taking place this week in New York, [...]

Social organisations in El Salvador critique the World Bank’s FCPF

Chris Lang — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:56:51 +0000

The Salvadoran Ecological Unit (UNES – Unidad Ecológica Salvadoreña) and other social organisations in El Salvador have written to Benoît Bosquet, the coordinator of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) demanding the El Salvador’s R-PP is not approved.

UNES also wrote to the Government demanding that the R-PP be withdrawn. (The letter [...]

“Through a glass darkly”: Six articles by Janette Bulkan about Vaitarna Holdings’ operations in Guyana

Chris Lang — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:55:10 +0000

Janette Bulkan recently wrote a series of six articles published in Guyana’s newspaper Stabroek News. The articles look in detail at the operations of an Indian coffee company with logging operations in Guyana.

The articles, which are posted in full below (and can be downloaded here – pdf file, 306.7 KB), ran under [...]

Indonesia: Destroying Tripa peat swamp forest is “an act of criminal vandalism”

Chris Lang — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:30 +0000

“Now is the time for action not words here in Tripa. To destroy one of the last great areas of peat swamp forest in Sumatra is an act of criminal vandalism.” That was written in 2008, but if anything, it’s even more relevant today than it was then.

While the destruction of the [...]

REDD in the news: 7-13 May 2012

REDD-Monitor — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:13:39 +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.

Corruption and REDD+: Identifying risks amid complexity

By André Standing, U4, May 2012 | Corruption and other factors can influence [...]

Additional Guidance on REDD+ Safeguards Information Systems

Chris Lang — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:26:47 +0000

The REDD+ Safeguards Information System Working Group has produced a briefing paper on safeguards information systems. The briefing was produced ahead of the climate meetings in May 2012 in Bonn.

The REDD+ Safeguards Information System Working Group is a North-South group of civil society organisations and indigenous organisations working on REDD+, formed [...]

Richard Sandor: Carbon trading, holy cows and sacred groves

Chris Lang — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:51:25 +0000

Richard Sandor has a new book out. He’ll tell you that markets are the solution before he hears the problem. Pollution? Climate change? Water shortages? Species extinction? Just create a new market and the problem will go away.

Or not. One of the markets that Sandor helped create is the carbon market. [...]