A new briefing note from Forest Peoples Programme and Yayasan Pusaka documents how the Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership project has failed to implement the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) for local communities.
Category: Australia
Judge in Peru issues warrant for carbon cowboy David Nilsson’s arrest
AIDESEP announces that a warrant is out for the arrest of David Nilsson. Meanwhile a website is set up to attack Dan Pantone, a US scientist working in Peru.
Controversy surrounding Australia’s Kalimantan Forest and Climate Partnership REDD project deepens
Recently an Evaluation Team spent two days looking at Australia’s Kalimantan Forest and Climate Partnership project. Local communities from the project area and Indonesian NGOs wrote to the Governor of Central Kalimantan Teras Narang pointing out the inadequacies of the Evaluation and the ongoing problems with the project.
The Carbon Cowboy: David Nilsson on 60 Minutes Australia
By Chris Lang David Nilsson arrived in Peru two years ago and promised indigenous communities billions of dollars in return for signing over the rights to their forests. This week, 60 Minutes Australia broadcast an investigation into Nilsson’s operations in Peru and elsewhere.
The strange case of Brett Goldsworthy
In 2010, Brett Goldsworthy’s company Shift2Neutral claimed to have REDD deals covering several million hectares in Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil. Since then, things have gone pear shaped.