Skip to content
Menu
REDD-Monitor
  • Start here
  • About REDD-Monitor
  • REDD: An introduction
  • Contact
REDD-Monitor

Category: Indonesia

Guest Post: Forests, carbon markets, and capitalism. How deforestation in Indonesia became a geo-political hornet’s nest

Posted on 21 August 202021 August 2020

Dr Bernice Maxton-Lee is the author of Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia: A Political Economy Study of International Governance Failure, published in 2020 by Routledge. She submitted this Guest Post about deforestation in Indonesia.

Read More
Green Climate Fund No REDD

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.

Read More
Katingan

Indonesia’s Katingan REDD project sells carbon credits to Shell. But that doesn’t mean the forest is protected. It’s threatened by land conflicts, fires and a palm oil plantation

Posted on 12 December 20193 April 2020

By Chris Lang The Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project covers an area of about 150,000 hectares in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The project was created in 2007 by an Indonesian company called PT Rimba Makmur Utama. The director of the company is Dharsono Hartono.

Read More
Who Watches the Watchmen? 2

Greenwash: How the RSPO fails to uphold its own rules

Posted on 5 November 20193 April 2020

By Chris Lang The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil operates under the slogan, “Transforming markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm”. Created in 2004, the RSPO is supposed to reassure consumers and manufacturers that products with the RSPO label are not linked to rainforest destruction, human rights abuses, or habitat destruction of endangered species…

Read More

Questions for the Harapan Rainforest Project: Land conflicts, deforestation, funding, and the proposed construction of a coal transportation road

Posted on 2 May 201915 November 2019

The Harapan Rainforest Project covers an area of 100,000 hectares of lowland forest in South Sumatra and Jambi provinces, Indonesia. That’s about one-fifth of the lowland rainforest remaining in Sumatra. The forest was a state-run logging concession and was logged intensively in the past, but since 2008 it has been managed by Resotrasi Ekosistem Indonesia…

Read More
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 55
  • Next

SUBSCRIBE!

Enter your email address to receive notification of new posts.

Recent themes
Natural Climate Solutions
WWF's conservation scandals
Aviation and offsetting
Conservation Watch

REDDisms

“The completion of rules for the Carbon Fund marks a major step forward in the effort to slow emissions from the destruction of tropical forests. This is ready, set, go for the world’s largest international REDD fund.”

— Duncan Marsh, The Nature Conservancy, December 2013

Recent Comments

  • st john on Bar Works: The return of Renwick Haddow
  • Gordon Emery on Capitalism is driving us to disaster
  • Jonathan Price (@B3CPres) on Capitalism is driving us to disaster
  • Mrs Linda Knight on Savraj Gata-Aura sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the Bar Works investment scam
  • Chris Lang on Bar Works: The return of Renwick Haddow
My Tweets

Recent Posts

  • Capitalism is driving us to disaster
  • How REDD greenwashes Glencore’s coal mining operations in Colombia
  • The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading
  • Book review: “Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia” by Bernice Maxton-Lee
  • Plant for the Planet: Felix Finkbeiner’s fake forests

Recent Comments

  • st john on Bar Works: The return of Renwick Haddow
  • Gordon Emery on Capitalism is driving us to disaster
  • Jonathan Price (@B3CPres) on Capitalism is driving us to disaster
  • Mrs Linda Knight on Savraj Gata-Aura sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the Bar Works investment scam
  • Chris Lang on Bar Works: The return of Renwick Haddow

Issues and Organisations

AB 32 Boiler rooms Bonn California Can REDD save ... ? Carbon accounting Carbon Credits Carbon Offsets CDM Conservation-Watch Conservation International COP21 Paris Deforestation FCPF FERN Financing REDD Forest definition Fossil fuels FPP Friends of the Earth FSC Greenpeace Guest post ICAO Illegal logging Indigenous Peoples Natural Climate Solutions NGO statements Plantations Poznan R-M interview REDD and rights REDD in the news Risk RSPO-Watch Safeguards Sengwer Sustainable Forest Management The Nature Conservancy Ulu Masen UN-REDD UNFCCC World Bank WRM WWF

Countries

Australia Bolivia Brazil Cambodia Cameroon Canada China Colombia Congo Basin region DR Congo Ecuador El Salvador European Union France Germany Guatemala Guyana Honduras India Indonesia Kenya Laos Luxembourg Madagascar Malaysia Mexico Nicaragua Nigeria Norway Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Republic of Congo Sweden Tanzania Thailand Uganda UK Uncategorized United Arab Emirates USA Vietnam West Papua
©2021 REDD-Monitor | Powered by WordPress and Superb Themes!