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Coronavirus notes #7: How the Colombian government is rolling back social and environment safeguards during the pandemic

Posted on 24 February 202124 February 2021

By Chris Lang Last week, Forest Peoples Programme put out a series of reports looking at the following question: To what extent have government in the world’s five most forested tropical countries rolled back on social and environmental safeguards and what are the consequences of this for Indigenous Peoples and their territories?

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How REDD greenwashes Glencore’s coal mining operations in Colombia

Posted on 21 January 202121 January 2021

REDD carbon credits greenwash Glencore’s coal mining in Colombia and allow extractivism to continue.

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The Green Climate Fund Board discussion about Colombia’s REDD+ funding proposal: Concerns about environmental integrity, “could have been funded by the GCF outside of the REDD+ pilot programme”, reservations about GCF’s REDD+ scorecard, Colombia is not a high forest low deforestation country, and any emissions reductions already reversed. The Board approved funding anyway

Posted on 17 September 202017 September 2020

By Chris Lang In August 2020, the Green Climate Fund approved US$28.2 million for “results-based” funding to Colombia, for the period 2015 to 2016. In the presentation of the proposed REDD payments, the Green Climate Fund Secretariat acknowledged that deforestation in Colombia, particularly in the Amazon, had increased since the Peace Agreement in 2016.

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Colombia is evaluating Winrock International’s Architecture for REDD+ Transactions standard

Posted on 8 September 20208 September 2020

By Chris Lang In December 2019, the governments of Colombia, Norway, Germany, and the UK signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on REDD and promoting sustainable development in Colombia. In August 2020, Ricardo José Lozano Picón, Colombia’s minister for Environment and Sustainable Development wrote to Mary Grady at Winrock International, to tell her that Colombia…

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Sign the letter to the Green Climate Fund: No REDD+ “results-based payments”

Posted on 14 August 202027 August 2020

The Green Climate Fund Board will hold a virtual meeting between 18 and 21 August 2020. Included in the funding requests are two for REDD+ “result-based payments”: Indonesia REDD-plus RBP for results period 2014-2016; and Colombia REDD+ Results-based Payments for results period 2015-2016.

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