By Chris Lang In autumn 2019, the US government suspended US$12.3 million of funding to the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE). This followed a bipartisan congressional oversight investigation to examine whether US conservation funds were supporting eco-guards who committed human rights abuses.
Author: Chris Lang
REDD notes: 12 October 2020
By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. Follow @reddmonitor on Twitter for more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry, greenwash, carbon offsetting, etc.
REDD notes: 5 October 2020
By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. Follow @reddmonitor on Twitter for more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry, greenwash, carbon offsetting, etc.
EU scraps US$35 million conservation and climate change programme in Kenya over forced evictions
By Chris Lang The European Union has scrapped its US$35 million Water Towers Protection and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Programme in Kenya. The project had been suspended since January 2018, after a Kenya Forest Service guard shot and killed Robert Kirotich, an Indigenous Sengwer man. The shooting took place during a raid in Embobut…
UNDP’s response to Norway in relation to Green Climate Fund’s “results based” payment to Indonesia reveals no mechanism for dealing with double counting, and how few REDD projects there are in the country
By Chris Lang In August 2020, the Green Climate Fund approved US$103.8 million of supposedly “results-based” funding for the period 2014 to 2016. The Green Climate Fund’s board approved the funding despite the horrific fires in Indonesia’s peatlands in 2015. To make matters worse, Indonesia is planning a series of infrastructure projects and a “Job…