Dusun Guhanaga is a village in Aceh in an area called Gunung Hujan (Rain Mountain). The road to the village is an ex-logging road built by PT Aceh Inti Timber. When the company was awarded the HPH (Hak Pengusahaan Hutan) Forest Concession, it immediately started logging the forest outside the concession area.
Author: Chris Lang
Time to scrap the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
In an attempt to revive carbon prices in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted yesterday in favour of postponing the auctioning of 900 million pollution allowances. The market’s reaction to the vote? A 20% slump in the price of EU allowances.
AIDESEP letter to Forest Investment Programme: REDD in Peru “will lead to an increase in emissions from deforestation”
AIDESEP (Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon) has written to the Forest Investment Programme in protest at the way proposals for REDD are marginalising indigenous peoples and promoting a “failed model of large concessions”, promotion of industrial plantations, and increasing “desk based or paper reforms”.
The EU carbon trading scheme in crisis: Save it or scrap it?
In 2012, the value of global carbon markets fell by 35%, from €96 billion to €62 billion. The average global carbon price fell by 49% to €5.82 per tonne in 2012, down from €11.45/t in 2011 and €13.09/t in 2010.
Gas extraction and REDD in Peru: You can’t have your cake and eat it
Peru’s Vice Ministry of Interculturalism is currently carrying out a project to protect Territorial Reserves for Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation or in initial contact. The US$1 million project is funded by the Inter-American Development Bank.