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Category: Cambodia

How the poorest of the poor end up paying for REDD

Posted on 11 April 201911 November 2019

I wrote this post in June 2018, for iz3w (Informationszentrum 3. welt), an organisation based in Freiburg, Germany. A German translation of an edited version is published in the May/June 2019 issue titled, “Klimawandel” (Climate change). The following is the unedited version.

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Legal expert on communities in the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia: “REDD+ is done to them”

Posted on 23 February 201814 June 2018

David Takacs is an Associate Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. In December 2012, he carried out a pro bono legal consulting trip to Vietnam and Cambodia for “an international NGO that was planning REDD+ projects in Southeast Asia.” One of the REDD projects that Takacs looked at was the…

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Guest Post: Oddar Meanchey communities “have long been abandoned”. The Fern report correctly raises a number of difficulties and challenges with carbon offsetting generally and REDD+ in particular

Posted on 9 February 20189 February 2018

Dr Tim Frewer carried out part of the research for his PhD thesis in Cambodia, looking at the Oddar Meanchey REDD project. Following the responses from Terra Global Capital and VCS to Fern’s recent critical report that featured a case study of the Oddar Meanchey project, Frewer sent the following Guest Post to REDD-Monitor.

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Responses from Terra Global Capital, VCS, and Wildlife Works to Fern’s report, “Unearned credit: Why aviation industry forest offsets are doomed to fail”

Posted on 4 February 20185 February 2018

In November 2017, Fern published a report titled, “Unearned credit: Why aviation industry forest offsets are doomed to fail”. The report takes aim at the aviation industry’s planned carbon trading mechanism, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation.

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Virgin Atlantic has stopped buying carbon credits from the Oddar Meanchey REDD project

Posted on 10 January 201810 January 2018

On 9 January 2018, Virgin Atlantic told the Phnom Penh Post that it had stopped buying carbon credits from the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia. Virgin Atlantic’s decision followed the publication of a report by Fern that highlights the problems of offsetting emissions from the aviation sector. One of the case studies in the…

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