By Chris Lang The Wall Street Journal recently reported from Peru about the “opaque network of traders, registries, raters, governments and investors that each can take a slice of the transactions” when carbon offsets are sold from REDD projects.
Category: Peru
The Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: FSC blocks and suspends logging company Maderyja. The REDD project (which consists of two logging concessions and overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation) is still selling carbon offsets
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: One of the logging companies has lost its FSC certificate. The concession also overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation.
Statement from Kichwa Indigenous communities about the Cordillera Azul National Park REDD (PNCAZ) project: “No to the false climate solutions offered as ‘Nature Based Solutions’ and ‘carbon neutrality’ by oil and mining companies that pollute in other regions of the world, such as Shell, Total, BHP, and others, who buy carbon from the PNCAZ.”
Cordillera Azul National Park: Kichwa Indigenous communities have put out a statement opposing false climate solutions like offsetting, that benefit oil and mining companies.
REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru: “They don’t count deforestation when they don’t want to. And, this is cheating”
REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions: A review by Elias Ayrey, remote sensing scientist, reveals major flaws in the methodology.
IUCN supports 30×30. IUCN claims to be concerned about the rights of Indigenous Peoples. But IUCN bought carbon credits from the Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ project. Which consists of two logging concessions. And overlaps with a proposed Indigenous reserve to protect the Mascho Piro Indigenous People living in voluntary isolation
IUCN bought carbon credits from the Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ project – that sets a worrying and dangerous precedent given IUCN’s support for 30×30.