Congo’s forest ‘emissions reductions programme’: The World Bank is paying US$40 million mainly for logging and palm companies to do nothing whatsoever.
Category: Norway
We cannot offset our way out of the climate crisis: A response to Norwegian economist Henrik Wiig
By Chris Lang Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He has a refreshingly simple approach to the climate crisis. “Because burning fossil fuel is what’s causing global warming,” he writes on his website, “the central focus of my response is to avoid burning it!” He has reduced his own carbon…
Norway’s forest and climate policy: “Heisann og hoppsann og fallerallera”
Norway’s forest and climate policy is useful for politicians to avoid difficult decisions, argue Tor A. Benjaminsen and Hanne Svarstad. But it will not address the climate crisis.
Re-branding REDD: How the LEAF Coalition aims to greenwash Big Polluters like Delta Airlines, Amazon, Bayer, Nestlé, Salesforce, and Unilever
The LEAF Coalition is a public-private scheme to greenwash Big Polluters, generate vast amounts of carbon credits, and will result in a massive carbon grab.
Indonesia scraps US$1 billion REDD deal with Norway
By Chris Lang Indonesia has scrapped the US$1 billion REDD agreement with Norway. In a May 2010 Letter of Intent, Norway had agreed to pay Indonesia up to US$1 billion for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Eleven years later, Norway has not transferred any “results-based” payments to Indonesia.