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Category: Indonesia

What is a forest?

Posted on 3 November 200820 March 2015

The way that forest is defined is crucial to whether REDD will be successful in preventing deforestation. As the Rainforest Foundation notes, “Using FAO’s definition of forest, monoculture plantations, highly degraded forests and even clear-cut areas ‘expected’ to regenerate, are all counted as forests.”

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What’s wrong with using carbon financing for REDD?

Posted on 17 October 20082 November 2011

Financing REDD through carbon finance presents serious problems, both for the forests and for addressing runaway climate change. In a presentation in March 2008, Andrew Aulisi, Director of the Markets & Enterprise Program at World Resources Institute, explains why he thinks that carbon finance for REDD is not a good idea:

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Indonesia re-enters the Guinness Book of Records for the world’s fastest rate of deforestation

Posted on 7 October 200822 June 2016

For the second year running, Indonesia has the dubious honour of entering the Guinness Book of Records as the country with the highest rate of deforestation. According to the 2009 Guinness World Records, Indonesia’s deforestation rate was 1.8 million hectares per year between 2000 and 2005. This amounts to a loss of 2 percent of…

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UN and Norway launch REDD programme

Posted on 4 October 200822 June 2016

In September 2008, the UN and Norway launched a UN-REDD programme. The press release is below. It’s interesting to look at what they are saying about Indonesia: “Indonesia has the potential to be compensated $1 billion a year if its deforestation rate was reduced to one million hectares annually.”

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