EcoPush, the Gibraltar-based company offering “investments” in carbon trading, biofuels, agricultural commodities and sustainable timber, has disappeared. REDD-Monitor wrote about the company in June 2013.
Author: Chris Lang
Indonesia: President Jokowi extends the moratorium and announces a 4.6 million hectare land grab
Last week, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo agreed to extend the country’s moratorium on new forestry concessions. Also last week, Jokowi visited Papua and relaunched the disastrous Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE).
The Guyana Forestry Commission and Indigenous Peoples’ rights: A revealing exchange
Before the World Bank’s Carbon Fund meeting last month, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) wrote to the participants of the meeting, expressing concerns about Guyana’s proposal to the Carbon Fund.
Will the World Bank fund Guyana’s hot air proposal?
At the end of April 2015, the World Bank’s Carbon Fund held its 12th meeting in Paris. James Singh, head of the Guyana Forestry Commission, gave an “Early Idea Presentation” on Guyana’s Emission Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN).
“Bai Shan Lin has most certainly contravened laws, regulations and approved policies of Guyana”
In August 2014, after a series of articles in the Guyanese media about Chinese company Bai Shan Lin’s logging operations, a Guyanese PhD student wrote to the Norwegian government with a simple question: Is the Low Carbon Development Strategy just a sham?