Last week, REDD-Monitor looked at the aviation industry’s plans to offset its ever-growing emissions using REDD credits. Kevin Conrad and the Coalition for Rainforest Nations are behind the plan. It’s supported by nine mainly US-based NGOs. And it’s opposed by more than 80 NGOs internationally.
Author: Chris Lang
SGS Malaysia’s RSPO accreditation was terminated because SGS Malaysia carried out audits while it was suspended
On 31 December 2015, Accreditation Services International terminated SGS Malaysia’s accreditation with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. REDD-Monitor wrote about this in February 2016: “Transparency and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil: Why was SGS Malaysia’s accreditation terminated?” Neither RSPO nor ASI were willing to explain why SGS Malaysia’s accreditation had been terminated.
Is California steamrolling REDD offsets into its cap and trade scheme?
California is currently considering whether to allow REDD credits into its Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32). For several years, there has been a (sometimes heated) debate about this issue, some of which REDD-Monitor has documented.
A recipe for burning the planet. Cooked up by Kevin Conrad and the aviation industry, with a little help from the UN
For the past 10 years, Kevin Conrad has been working to push a carbon trading mechanism called REDD through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Last year, he turned his attention to the massively polluting aviation sector as a source of finance for REDD.
More than 80 NGOs oppose aviation sector’s carbon offsetting plans
Air travel has increased rapidly in recent decades, resulting in ever more greenhouse gas emissions from flying. Yet the aviation sector was nowhere to been seen the UN’s Paris Agreement agreed at the end of last year. Instead the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is planning “carbon neutral” growth from 2020. ICAO plans to…