You’ve heard of carbon offsetting. Here’s biodiversity offsetting – a scheme that would allow destructive development projects just about anywhere.
Author: Chris Lang
Introducing another World Bank forest boondoggle: Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes
Yesterday, at COP19 in Warsaw, Norway, the UK, and the USA launched yet another initiative to protect forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Called the “BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes”, this will be a public-private partnership housed in the World Bank.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil fails to uphold workers’ rights and indigenous peoples’ rights
Earlier this month, two meetings took place, both focussing on oil palm plantations. The first was a meeting of communities and civil society and took place in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The second was the 11th meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia.
BASIC countries are opposed to REDD offsets
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.
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.”