By Chris Lang At the end of April 2020, Thomson Reuters Foundation reported that Pakistan was employing people who had lost their jobs because of the coronavirus to plant trees. The article quoted Malik Amin Aslam Khan, climate change advisor to the prime minister, as saying that, “This tragic crisis provided an opportunity and we…
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Indigenous Batwa prisoners were arrested on their ancestral lands in the Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
By Chris Lang When the Kahuzi-Biéga National Park was established in the 1970s in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, about 6,000 Indigenous Batwa people were evicted. For more than 40 years the Batwa have struggled to have their rights recognised. The Batwa communities around the park have no land, and find it difficult to earn…
REDD notes: 25 May 2020
By Chris Lang Welcome to this new look “REDD in the news” post. Instead of linking to a wide range of posts (many of which were only tangentially related to REDD – and some of which were pure REDD propaganda), I’ll look at a few news items from the previous week with some brief comments….
Our Nature is Not Your Solution!
By Chris Lang 22 May is the International Day for Biological Diversity. The UN General Assembly launched World Biodiversity Day in 1993. This year’s theme, chosen by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is “Our solutions are in nature”. The CBD tells us that the theme, “emphasises hope, solidarity and the importance of working together…
Why REDD’s not dead, despite its “dismal track-record”
By Chris Lang A recent issue of the Journal of Political Ecology includes a Special Section focussing on REDD+. The Special Section is edited by Adeniyi Asiyanbi (Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Canada) and Jens Friis Lund (Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark).