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Category: Gabon

Regulatory failure: The strange case of a French company called Carbon Market

Posted on 7 May 202022 May 2020

By Chris Lang Carbon Market is a timber company, registered in France in May 2009. The company imports timber from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon.

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Gabon signs US$150 million REDD deal with Norway. Shhh… Don’t mention corruption

Posted on 24 September 201920 February 2020

At a meeting on 22 September 2019 in New York, Lee White, who was recently appointed Forestry Minister in Gabon, announced a new US$150 million REDD deal with the Central African Forest Initiative. The meeting marked the fifth anniversary of the New York Declaration on Forests. The money will come, surprise, surprise, from Norway.

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Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are “mostly failing” says new Rainforest Foundation UK report

Posted on 28 April 2016

“Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are mostly failing to protect forests and biodiversity, having serious negative impacts on local populations, and for these reasons are probably unsustainable.”

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