REDD deal with Norway: The MoU with Indonesia includes sweeping confidentiality clauses and excludes Indigenous Peoples, independent researchers, and civil society.
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The Katingan REDD project: How offsetting enables the fossil fuel sociopaths to destroy the planet
The Katingan REDD project, and other carbon offsetting projects are enabling the fossil fuel industry to continue destroying the planet.

Will global spatial planning save the world’s biodiversity? (No, it won’t.) For those engaged in developing the new Global Biodiversity Framework: four lessons from the past, and a warning for the future
Will global spatial planning save the world’s biodiversity? Simon Counsell takes a look at some of the lessons from the past where spatial planning led to disastrous outcomes for biodiversity.

Indonesia: Zero deforestation by 2030 is “inappropriate and unfair”
The day after Indonesia signed the Glasgow Declaration on Forests, Indonesia’s Minister for Environment said zero deforestation by 2030 is “inappropriate and unfair”

Dutch Advertising Watchdog rules Shell’s “CO2 Neutral” campaign is greenwash
The Dutch Advertising Code Commission has ruled that Shell’s CO2 neutral adverts are misleading.