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Peter Virdee sentenced

Peter Virdee sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in carbon credit VAT fraud

Posted on 4 January 20227 April 2022

Peter Virdee sentenced to three years and three months in prison by a court in Frankfurt am Main.

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Democratic Republic of Congo

More than 40 NGOs join call to stop the lifting of the logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted on 27 September 202127 September 2021

The Democratic Republic of Congo is planning to lift its logging moratorium. More than 40 human rights and environmental NGOs have written to donor governments asking them to intervene.

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Forced evictions in the name of conservation: 28 Sengwer homes burned in Kenya

Posted on 15 July 202024 September 2020

By Chris Lang On 11 May 2020, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, Fred Matiangi’i, issued a moratorium on forced evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. He made the announcement on national television. On 10 July 2020, Kenya Forest Service guards burned down 28 homes belonging to Sengwer Indigenous People in…

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The EU’s NaturAfrica must avoid colonialism in conservation: Protected areas should be managed by Indigenous Peoples themselves

Posted on 12 June 202012 June 2020

By Chris Lang On 11 December 2019, European Commission published a Communication setting out a European Green Deal for the European Union and its citizens. The Communication referred to its Comprehensive Strategy with Africa, and mentioned an initiative called “NaturAfrica”:

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The aviation industry is avoiding its climate commitments while manipulating the price of carbon offsets downwards

Posted on 11 June 202012 June 2020

By Chris Lang Before the coronavirus crisis, greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry were among the fastest growing of any industry. Yet there is no mention of the aviation sector in the Paris Agreement. Instead, in 2016, the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) announced that aviation would go “carbon neutral” from 2020.

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