By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. For more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry, greenwash, carbon offsetting, and so on, please follow @reddmonitor on Twitter.
Author: Chris Lang
Pakistan’s tree planting programmes: Corruption, exclusion and marginalisation
By Chris Lang At the end of April 2020, Thomson Reuters Foundation reported that Pakistan was employing people who had lost their jobs because of the coronavirus to plant trees. The article quoted Malik Amin Aslam Khan, climate change advisor to the prime minister, as saying that, “This tragic crisis provided an opportunity and we…
REDD notes: 1 June 2020
By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. For a lot more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry and so on, please follow @reddmonitor on Twitter.
Indigenous Batwa prisoners were arrested on their ancestral lands in the Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
By Chris Lang When the Kahuzi-Biéga National Park was established in the 1970s in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, about 6,000 Indigenous Batwa people were evicted. For more than 40 years the Batwa have struggled to have their rights recognised. The Batwa communities around the park have no land, and find it difficult to earn…
Planet of the Humans (part 2): Bill McKibben and 350.org
By Chris Lang The documentary Planet of the Humans continues to raise controversy. This week, YouTube took down the documentary in response to a copyright infringement claim by Toby Smith, a British photographer. The offending four-second clip comes in a sequence titled “How Solar Panels & Wind Turbines Are Made” and shows a rare earth…