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Category: Norway

Congo’s forest ‘emissions reductions programme’: Germany, Norway and UK taxpayers paying for nothing, as the World Bank-backed Forest Carbon Partnership Facility produces only ‘hot air’ emissions reductions

Posted on 19 January 202211 February 2022

Congo’s forest ‘emissions reductions programme’: The World Bank is paying US$40 million mainly for logging and palm companies to do nothing whatsoever.

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We cannot offset

We cannot offset our way out of the climate crisis: A response to Norwegian economist Henrik Wiig

Posted on 17 January 202217 January 2022

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…

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Norway's forest and climate policy

Norway’s forest and climate policy: “Heisann og hoppsann og fallerallera”

Posted on 8 January 20228 January 2022

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.

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LEAF Coalition

Re-branding REDD: How the LEAF Coalition aims to greenwash Big Polluters like Delta Airlines, Amazon, Bayer, Nestlé, Salesforce, and Unilever

Posted on 1 November 20211 November 2021

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.

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Indonesia scraps US$1 billion REDD deal

Indonesia scraps US$1 billion REDD deal with Norway

Posted on 13 September 202113 September 2021

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.

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