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Category: El Salvador

Open letter to the Salvadorean government

Open letter to the Salvadorean government: Natural climate solutions and REDD “are being used to divert the climate debate from true solutions, based on avoiding and reducing emissions from the burning of fossil fuels”

Posted on 30 October 20194 April 2020

By Chris Lang The Climate Change Board of El Salvador has written an open letter raising its concerns about the statements made by Fernando López, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, at the UN Climate Action Summit, held in New York, in September 2019. The letter also raises concerns about the Salvadorean government’s plans for…

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REDD is “the most ineffective and iniquitous mechanism to mitigate climate change” says El Salvador’s Climate Change Round-Table in a letter to president elect, Nayib Bukele

Posted on 16 April 2019

Last week, the Climate Change Round-Table in El Salvador, a group of civil society organisations, handed over an open letter to the country’s president-elect Nayib Bukele. The letter is critical of the environmental and climate policies of the previous government, which focussed heavily on REDD.

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REDD in Central America: It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission

Posted on 23 October 201621 August 2017

This month’s World Rainforest Movement Bulletin includes an article about REDD in Central America, written by Henry Picado (Red de Coordinación en Biodiversidad), Zuiri Méndez (Kioscos Ambientales), and Mariana Porras (Coecoceiba Amigos de La Tierra).

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Salvadoran Round-table on Climate Change urges government to abandon REDD

Posted on 6 October 201621 August 2017

In September 2016, the El Salvador Round-table on Climate Change released a statement urging the government to abandon its REDD plans. The statement is posted here in full, and is available in Spanish here.

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Guest Post: From the chaos of REDD-plus towards the Bonn Challenge’s maze

Posted on 17 June 201615 April 2019

Yvette Aguilar is an expert and adviser on the issue of climate change of El Salvador Round-Table and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in El Salvador. She submitted this Guest Post looking at the way proponents are recycling REDD under a range of different labels.

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