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Author: Chris Lang
REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru finally started paying communities a decade after the project started. “I’m still lacking money,” says one community member
By Chris Lang The Wall Street Journal recently reported from Peru about the “opaque network of traders, registries, raters, governments and investors that each can take a slice of the transactions” when carbon offsets are sold from REDD projects.
REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2022
REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2022 – featuring: Peter Virdee; Sadhguru; Adam Neumann; Nick Durrant; Eric Dinerstein; Eberhard Brandes; Ben van Beurden; Bowers and Skeene; Lee White; and James Moore.
The harsh reality of 30×30: The EU is keen to allow extractivism in the 30×30 target – but not Indigenous Peoples’ territories
The harsh reality of 30×30 is that it is focussed on protecting little or nothing, but threatens the biggest land grab ever seen.
Human rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples and the proposed “30×30” target
Human rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples are common in fortress conservation. The 30×30 target will make things worse.