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REDD project in Sumatra slammed by Friends of the Earth Indonesia and Australia

REDD-Monitor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:56:34 +0000

Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) and Friends of the Earth Australia put out a press release today strongly criticising an A$30 million Australia-Indonesia REDD project in Sumatra, which was announced last week. WALHI and PPJ (United Farmers of Jambi) have also produced a position paper on the project and REDD in Jambi. WALHI and Friends [...]

Some answers from UN-REDD in Papua New Guinea

Chris Lang — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:11:56 +0000

In Papua New Guinea, the forest carbon trading fiasco continues, as does the logging. But you wouldn’t notice anything was amiss from the UN-REDD website. On 5 January 2010, 13 January 2010 and again on 15 February 2010, REDD-Monitor wrote to the UN-REDD programme to find out what UN-REDD has been doing to address the [...]

REDD in the news: 1-7 March 2010

Chris Lang — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:33:41 +0000

A round up of the last seven days’ news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). For those who can’t wait until Monday for their REDD news, REDD-Monitor’s news page is updated daily: REDD in the news. The highlight this week is a great article by [...]

The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International: Putting profits before planet

Chris Lang — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:16:39 +0000

“Why did America’s leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen and lobby for policies that will lead to the faster death of the rainforests – and runaway global warming?” Good question. It comes from a new article by journalist Johann Hari in The Nation. In the article, “The Wrong Kind of Green“, Hari slams the corruption [...]

REDD in the news: 22-28 February 2010

Chris Lang — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:02:06 +0000

A round up of the last seven days’ news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). For those who can’t wait until Monday for their REDD news, REDD-Monitor’s news page is updated daily: “REDD in the news“. Livelihoods and Forestry Programme DFID and the Government of Nepal, February [...]

PNG update: Logging, carbon trading and missing documents

Chris Lang — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:57:35 +0000

A month ago, I wrote to the UN-REDD team in Papua New Guinea to ask, among other things, what has happened to the programme’s budget of US$2,596 million. I am still waiting for a reply. Last week, I sent a reminder, along with a new question about the PNG government’s investigation into the Office of [...]

Accra Caucus: Key messages on REDD

Chris Lang — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:00:36 +0000

The Accra Caucus is a coalition of more than 100 non-governmental organisations from 30 countries. It was formed in August 2008, in Accra, Ghana at a meeting organised to discuss issues and concerns associated with REDD. Before COP-15 in Copenhagen, December 2009, the Accra Caucus produced a list of key messages to be included in [...]

REDD: Breathing new life into the scam of carbon trading

Chris Lang — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:36:22 +0000

This article was published in the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 151, February 2010. It is loosely based on a presentation I gave at a workshop in Bogor earlier this month, about local media and REDD. The workshop was organised by the Indonesian local media association ASTEKI and the Samdhana Institute. World Rainforest Movement has been closely [...]

REDD in the news: 15-21 February 2010

Chris Lang — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:18:19 +0000

Here is this week’s round up of the last seven days’ news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). For those who can’t wait until Monday for last week’s REDD news, REDD-Monitor’s news page is updated daily: “REDD in the news“. Future in Forests Robert Hrubes (SCS), Carbon [...]

“We must take advantage of low-hanging fruit solutions such as forest conservation”: Interview with Jeff Horowitz

Chris Lang — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:54:38 +0000

Two interviews with Jeff Horowitz, the founder of Avoided Deforestation Partners, were published earlier this month. The interviews reveal a great deal about why AD Partners is so interested in carbon trading. For example, Horowitz estimates that “protecting tropical forests will cut the cost of U.S. climate legislation almost in half – saving Americans billions.” [...]