Earlier this week, Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank and Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund spoke about climate change. This was the first time that the two have spoken together in public about climate change.
Author: Chris Lang
Opposition to REDD in California’s cap-and-trade scheme continues
The debate about whether REDD credits should be included in California’s cap-and-trade scheme continues. This week, a group of social and environmental NGOs wrote to Jerry Brown, California’s governor, opposing REDD and requesting a meeting with Brown and Mary D. Nichols, the Chair of the California Air Resources Board.
Indigenous peoples’ rights and the status of forest land in Indonesia
A recent meeting in Indonesia addressed three important issues facing the future of the forests in the country: gazettement of state forest; exclusion of indigenous peoples’ forest from the state forest; and the resolution of forestry conflicts.
VCS Registry “has not and cannot provide advice to individuals about what companies to use to sell carbon credits”
If you’ve bought carbon credits as an investment, you would probably be pleased to hear from someone from the VCS Registry offering help with selling your carbon credits. Unfortunately, that’s not someone from the VCS Registry on the phone, it’s another scammer.
Response from James Richards, Baron Traders: “I would therefore ask that this link is removed ASAP”
In August 2013, REDD-Monitor wrote about a company called Baron Traders, a Gibraltar registered company that sold carbon credits as investments. Much of the post was based on a series of articles written in 2011 by Richard Smith on the Naked Capitalism website.