Peru failed to meet a deadline to sign an Emission Reductions Payment Agreement with the World Bank.
Category: Peru
“Worse than doing nothing”: Shell’s REDD offsets in Indonesia and Peru
By Chris Lang Shell promises drivers in Denmark that they can become “CO2 neutral” when they buy carbon offsets with the petrol on sale in Shell’s petrol stations. Recently, three investigative journalists with the Danish newspaper Politiken spoke to a series of experts who point out that customers cannot trust Shell’s forest conservation promises. Morten…
Carbon colonialism in the Alto Mayo REDD project in Peru. An interview with Lauren Gifford on Earth Watch
By Chris Lang Yesterday, Dr. Lauren Gifford appeared on Earth Watch, a weekly segment on Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod, broadcast on California’s KPFK public radio station. Gifford did part of her PhD research in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest in Peru. Her PhD thesis is titled, “See the Carbon Through the Trees: Market-Based Climate…
Fortress conservation: Disney’s offsets are paying for heavily armed park rangers in Conservation International’s Alto Mayo REDD project in Peru
By Chris Lang An article in Bloomberg last week takes a detailed look at the Alto Mayo REDD+ project in Peru. Covering an area of 182,000 hectares in the San MartÃn region of northern Peru, the project is run by Conservation International together with Peru’s National Service for Natural Protected Areas Protected by the State…
Regulatory failure: The strange case of a French company called Carbon Market
By Chris Lang Carbon Market is a timber company, registered in France in May 2009. The company imports timber from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon.