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More on the D’Cerrado a’Amazonia REDD project in Brazil. Featuring SSO International Capital, LiveHOPE Fund, GHG Emissions Corp., RTD SPV1 LLC, and Brazil Mata Viva

Posted on 5 June 20206 June 2020

By Chris Lang In July 2016, Boniface Mburaburirwe wrote to REDD-Monitor, asking whether I (or anyone I knew) was interested in buying 345 million “certified carbon credits already invested on Bloomberg”. Mburaburirwe’s asking price was US$6.80 each.

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The Arctic is burning

Posted on 31 July 2019

The Arctic is burning. Those four words should terrify anyone who reads them. From Russia, to Greenland, to Canada, to Alaska more than 100 wildfires are burning. So far this year, Arctic fires have release 121 million tons of CO2. That’s more than the annual emissions of Belgium.

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Has EcoPlanet Bamboo really found a buyer for its bamboo in Nicaragua?

Posted on 27 April 2018

On 19 April 2018, a company called BAP Industries of Guatemala announced that it had signed a 10 year Bamboo Purchase Agreement with EcoPlanet Bamboo. Under the agreement, BAP Industries agreed to buy bamboo from EcoPlanet Bamboo’s plantations in Nicaragua.

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How free trade agreements threaten to undermine conservation in Colombia

Posted on 17 March 2016

“What we need is a new model of development for countries with tropical forests,” says Maria Claudia García, National Director of Forestry, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development in Colombia. According to Garcia, REDD is a “new vision”.

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Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Posted on 23 January 20146 October 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed international trade agreement, involving 12 countries and covering a range of topics including intellectual property, the environment and workers’ rights. The TPP has been negotiated in secret for almost four years.

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