“Enforcing sustainable logging and assigning a monetary value to the carbon stored in forest concessions managed under the REDD+ mechanism will not be enough to curb deforestation in Central Africa.”
Author: Chris Lang
Sorry. Prince Ea’s apology to future generations is nice, but carbon trading won’t stop climate change
US rapper Prince Ea put out a video this week to mark Earth Day. It’s called “Dear Future Generations: Sorry”, and it’s gone viral, with more than 25 million views on Facebook.
How Emerald Knight’s sales pitch duped the Financial Times blog FT Adviser
A scam company called Emerald Knight featured regularly on FT Adviser in 2011 – 2012.
Jens Frølich Holte, political adviser to Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment, explains why he supports using markets and pricing carbon
In March 2015, Bloomberg quoted Jens Frølich Holte, political adviser to Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment, as saying that, “Carbon trading can speed up the global transition away from a fossil economy. Trade creates benefits and this is as true for carbon as it is for other commodities.”
Everybody knows how not to cut down trees, so why is REDD so difficult to implement?
Since 2009, CIFOR has been carrying out research into 23 REDD projects around the world, as part of its Global Comparative Study on REDD+. Three years into the research, CIFOR realised that REDD was “barely moving ahead”, as William Sunderlin, principal scientist at CIFOR, puts it.