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Category: Brazil
“In the field of international climate policy and collaboration, REDD+ is a success” says Per Fredrik Pharo, Director of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
In March 2014, I wrote an opinion piece for the magazine Development Today. I asked whether Norway’s REDD deals are reducing deforestation. The article has triggered a small discussion.
Another carbon offset failure: The Monte Pascoal-Pau Brasil ecological corridor
The Monte Pascoal-Pau Brasil forest offset project in the south of Bahia, Brazil aims to finance the restoration of degraded forest through the sale of carbon credits. Communities living in the project area were promised social benefits from the project. Few of these benefits were realised and fewer lasted.
Are Norway’s REDD deals reducing deforestation?
By Chris Lang I recently wrote an opinion piece for the magazine Development Today about Norway’s REDD deals in Brazil and Indonesia. The piece is posted in full (with permission) below.
BASIC countries are opposed to REDD offsets
On 28 November 2009, Brazil, South Africa, India and China formed the BASIC block and agreed to act jointly at COP15, the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen. The BASIC countries threatened to walk out of COP15 if rich countries attempted to force their agenda on the Global South.