By Chris Lang In 2019, seven out of ten of the top ten posts on REDD-Monitor were about forests and climate change, with three posts about frauds and scams.
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Half Earth: The conservation proposal that could directly affect more than one billion people
By Chris Lang In his 2016 book, Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, biologist E.O. Wilson argues that the only way to protect a large percentage of the earth’s biodiversity is to set aside half of the Earth.
Tell the the Green Climate Fund: No to IFC subsidies for REDD offsets! No to REDD funding!
By Chris Lang The Board of the Green Climate Fund will meet in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 12 to 14 November 2019. Several funding requests are related to REDD, in Chile, Paraguay, and Laos. Particularly egregious is a funding request from the International Finance Corporation for a “Multi-Country Forest Bonds Programme”. The IFC programme…
“The claim that global tree restoration is our most effective climate change solution is simply incorrect scientifically and dangerously misleading”
By Chris Lang In July 2019, Science magazine published a paper titled, “The global tree restoration potential”. The paper was written predominantly by scientists from the Crowther Lab at ETH–Zürich, and from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. The paper resulted in a very large amount of media coverage, and some criticism from climate scientists.
Green Finance Observatory: Five major problems with natural climate solutions
By Chris Lang Recently, the so-called “forgotten solution” of natural climate solutions has been widely promoted. More than 150 nature-based solutions were announced at the recent UN Climate Action Summit in New York.