In October 2017, CIFOR put out a report titled, “Rights abuse allegations in the context of REDD+ readiness and implementation: A preliminary review and proposal for moving forward”. In early November, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about the report.
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REDD and Rights: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The latest issue of the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin includes an article by Ivonne Yánez of Acción Ecológica in Ecuador about REDD and Rights. It’s cross-posted here with permission. You can subscribe to the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin here.
REDD in the news: 6-12 November 2017
REDD-Monitor’s round-up of the week’s news on forests, climate change, and REDD. For regular updates, follow @reddmonitor on Twitter.
The Nature Conservancy is wrong. Planting trees is not equivalent to halting the burning of oil
Here we go again. “Plant more trees to combat climate change: scientists” is a Reuters headline from earlier this week. The article is based on a press release put out by The Nature Conservancy about a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper’s argument relies on the scientific…
Indigenous peoples, REDD safeguards, and the green economy
The social impacts of REDD on indigenous peoples and local communities who are dependent on forests has been controversial since REDD was included in the Bali Road Map at COP 13 in 2007. But over the past ten years, debate over whether REDD projects are desirable has been, to some extent at least, marginalised by…