Peru has given the go-ahead to the expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The impacts on the people and their forest will be devastating.
Author: Chris Lang
Carbon Offset Consultants is running a carbon credit recovery room scam
Carbon Offset Consultants cold calls people and offers them an exit strategy for the carbon credits that they were scammed into buying. Of course, there’s an advance fee to be paid.
Indigenous peoples evicted and their homes set on fire: Embobut forest, Kenya
Kenya Forest Service guards are evicting Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Embobut forest in Kenya. The guards have burned people’s homes and set fire to their possessions.
Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed international trade agreement, involving 12 countries and covering a range of topics including intellectual property, the environment and workers’ rights. The TPP has been negotiated in secret for almost four years.
Avoided deforestation or avoiding the issue? USAID’s forest carbon project in West Bali National Park in Indonesia
Last week, a small announcement appeared on the website of the US Embassy in Jakarta: “The United States government and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry today launched a new rainforest standard for carbon credits in West Bali National Park.”