Offsetting is not an option: Addressing the climate crisis means leaving fossil fuels underground. Carbon markets allow business, profits, and pollution as usual.
Papua New Guinea Environmental Alliance letter to Pogio Ghate, Minister for Environment, Conservation and Climate Change
Papua New Guinea: Environmental NGOs write to the PNG government about the proposed REDD+ Safeguards regulation.
Ecomapuá Amazon REDD Project, Brazil: Pública investigation reveals Ecomapuá Conservação is selling “illegal” carbon offsets from land it does not own, without transferring the money to local communities
Ecomapuá Amazon REDD Project: A detailed investigation by the Brazilian investigative journalism website Pública reveals a REDD project selling “illegal” carbon offsets from land it does not own.
Response from Steve Zwick, Verra: “Verra will ask Kanaka Management Systems to cease and desist any actions that may mislead communities into thinking that Verra has not already rejected the project”
By Chris Lang An Indian company called Kanaka Management Systems has plans to set up a REDD project covering an area of more than 72 million hectares in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In April 2022, NGOs working in DRC wrote to DRC’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development raising…
Response from Kanaka Management Services: “Please do not conduct legal trail or castigate REDD+ project developers on the website by writing text which shows the project developer in bad light”
By Chris Lang Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about Kanaka Management Services’ REDD project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The post featured a letter from a group of NGOs working in the country to Eva Bazaiba, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development. The letter requests Bazaiba’s immediate intervention…