Amazon tipping point: If the Amazon tips from rainforest to savanna it would be a disaster for the people living in the forest and for the world’s climate.
Category: Brazil
Munduruku Indigenous communities oppose REDD project on their territory
Munduruku Indigenous communities recently held a meeting in which they opposed a proposed REDD project on their territory.
The Amazon tipping point crisis
The Amazon tipping point at which the rainforest undergoes a process of savannisation has in places already started, a new report argues.
Brazilian Federal Prosecution Office gives Nemus 15 days to prove that it owns the land in the Amazon rainforest linked to its non-fungible tokens
By Chris Lang Nemus sells non-fungible tokens that the company claims to be linked to land in the Amazon rainforest. Nemus claims to have “secured 41,000 hectares of actual at-risk land in the Amazon rainforest”. In January 2022, Nemus announced that a further 6.1 million hectares is “currently under negotiation and soon to be at…
How to burn the planet. Shell invests US$38 million in Carbonext, Brazil’s biggest REDD offset firm
Shell has invested US$38 million in Brazil’s largest REDD offsetting company Carbonext.