REDD-Monitor recently received a message from IPAM International Program about funding support for the translation of key documents on REDD. The funding comes from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).
Author: Chris Lang
Interview with Marcus Colchester, Forest Peoples Programme: “From the point of view of the forest peoples, even though the forests are largely gone, the people are still there”
Interview with Marcus Colchester, Senior Policy Advisor, Forest Peoples Programme, focussing on his work on Asia Pulp and Paper. The interview was carried out by email in May 2013.
The Carbon Platform: Is this how a boiler room recruits staff?
The Carbon Platform is a Dubai-based company offering investment in the Carbon Compliance Market, as well as the opportunity to make yourself carbon neutral or your company green. The company is currently updating its website. “Too busy making everyone green…!” an announcement explains.
Advanced Global Trading: “Any price for VCUs is meaningful if a buyer can be found at such price”
Farah Halime, a journalist based in Cairo, reports that records from Dubai’s Department of Economic Development show that AGT’s license in Dubai will expire today. When she asked AGT whether it plans to renew the licence, the company re-sent her a statement it produced last week.
Advanced Global Trading sold at least US$25 million of voluntary carbon credits as investments
Two articles about Advanced Global Trading were published at the end of last week. One by Vivian Nereim, a journalist with The National, an Abu Dhabi English-language newspaper, and one by Farah Halime a journalist based in Cairo.