2020 was a strange year. And with that entry to the Basil Fawlty award for stating the bleedin’ obvious, here are REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2020.
Author: Chris Lang
Sarah Milne on REDD in Cambodia: “Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders”
REDD in Cambodia. Three things make Sarah Milne, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, uncomfortable about REDD credits: Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders.
Arundhati Roy on what’s wrong with REDD: “Once again, the Global North, the creators of the problem, will see to it that they profit from the solution that they propose”
By Chris Lang Arundhati Roy is one of my favourite writers. Over Christmas, I’ve been reading her book Azadi. The book is a series of essays about Hindu nationalism, India’s occupation of Kashmir, and the coronavirus pandemic. As far as I’m aware, she hasn’t (yet) written specifically about carbon markets or REDD. But in a…
Another response from Kurt Kaiser, Compass Carbon: “All of Mark Loewen’s illegal activities occurred prior to us working with Worldwide Carbon. We had no involvement or knowledge whatsoever in any Mark Loewen’s activities that resulted in his conviction”
By Chris Lang Yesterday, REDD-Monitor sent some questions to Kurt Kaiser, a partner of a company called Compass Carbon. Kaiser responded with a threat of legal action against REDD-Monitor, but didn’t answer any of REDD-Monitor’s questions.
Response from Kurt Kaiser, Director of Compass Carbon: “Your article was of great concern to us”. And some questions for Kaiser from REDD-Monitor
By Chris Lang Kurt Kaiser, Director of Compass Carbon LLC, has written to REDD-Monitor in response to last week’s post about a company called World Wide Carbon LLC. The post focussed on the fact that on 1 December 2020, Mark Loewen, one of the company’s directors, had pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud. At the…