In October 2014, REDD-Monitor wrote about Sterling and Bond, Voiptel International, and Velvet Assets. The companies were part of the Capital Alternatives network. The post received more than one hundred comments, some of which named the individuals involved in these and other related companies.
Author: Chris Lang
Indigenous Environmental Network: REDD “must be immediately canceled”
Over the past two weeks, the 15th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues took place at the UN headquarters in New York. On 18 May 2016, the Indigenous Environmental Network put out a press release demanding an end to carbon offsets and REDD. It slams the Paris Agreements as “a crime against humanity…
Can REDD save the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
A new report by the Forest Peoples Programme finds that “Deforestation and forest degradation have increased in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite the government’s commitment to safeguard its forests”.
Illegal logging, palm oil and politics in Central Kalimantan
Last year, local elections took place in Indonesia. The vote for the governor of Central Kalimantan was delayed, and took place in January 2016. Sugianto Sabran, the candidate with the closest ties to the palm oil industry won – by a very narrow margin.
Response from Salya Group: “Please could you kindly remove this link … with the upmost urgency”
An interesting response from the Salya Group to the German Police’s notice about Mohsin Salya, one of three carbon credit fraud suspects.