On 28 November 2009, Brazil, South Africa, India and China formed the BASIC block and agreed to act jointly at COP15, the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen. The BASIC countries threatened to walk out of COP15 if rich countries attempted to force their agenda on the Global South.
Author: Chris Lang
Before Luke Ryan founded Enviro Associates, he was censured by the Financial Services Authority
“Enviro Associates specialises in providing the opportunity to purchase Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) carbon credits within the de-centralised unregulated speculative voluntary carbon credit spot market for high risk speculative investment for the future and individual and corporate offset purposes.”
Carbon Neutral Investments and CNI (UK) Ltd
Over the past two weeks, Richard Smith has written a series of posts on Naked Capitalism about Carbon Neutral Investments and carbon credit scams. REDD-Monitor provided two handy guides to these posts, here and here.
New Greenpeace briefing explains why forests cannot offset fossil fuel emissions
To coincide with the COP19 UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, Greenpeace has released a short briefing explaining why forests cannot offset fossil fuel emissions.
REDD texts on safeguards information system and drivers of deforestation will not be re-opened at COP19 in Warsaw
The UN climate negotiations started this week in Warsaw. For the second year in a row, the negotiations coincide with a massive typhoon hitting the Philippines. Last year at Doha, Philippine negotiator Yeb Saño asked, “Please, let Doha be remembered as the place where we found the political will to turn things around.”