By Chris Lang Earlier this year, Greenpeace Italy commissioned a report to review the Luangwa Community Forests Project in Zambia. The Italian oil and gas corporation Eni has committed to buy carbon credits from the project until 2038. In August 2021, Eni became the latest company to claim to have delivered “carbon neutral” liquefied natural…
Category: Zambia
I’m a GNU. How do you do? A REDD animal appears in Paris with a promise of US$5 billion
On the first day of the UN climate negotiations in Paris, the governments of Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom pledged US$5 billion for REDD, between 2015 and 2020. The GNU countries say they “have signaled they will increasingly target results-based finance for countries who deliver verified REDD+ emission reductions”.
Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa
By Chris Lang “Carbon forestry is privatizing, commodifying and financializing the world’s forests, recasting relations between state and market forest landscapes,” says Jesse Ribot, University of Illinois in a review of a new book.