Yvette Aguilar is an expert and adviser on the issue of climate change of El Salvador Round-Table and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in El Salvador. She submitted this Guest Post looking at the way proponents are recycling REDD under a range of different labels.
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World Bank on REDD: “We have made great achievements in 2015 and we’re now focussing on implementation”
This week sees the Oslo REDD Exchange 2016. Previous REDD Exchanges took place in 2011 and 2013, and almost 500 people are attending the third REDD Exchange. The presentations are being live-streamed and posted on Norad’s YouTube account.
Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the REDD+ Ngoyla-Mintom project in Cameroon
The Ngoyla-Mintom REDD project covers an area of more than 700,000 hectares in the south of Cameroon. The project takes a “landscape” approach, aiming to create a new protected area linking the Nki National Park and Dja Biosphere Reserve.
Indigenous Environmental Network: REDD “must be immediately canceled”
Over the past two weeks, the 15th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues took place at the UN headquarters in New York. On 18 May 2016, the Indigenous Environmental Network put out a press release demanding an end to carbon offsets and REDD. It slams the Paris Agreements as “a crime against humanity…
World Rainforest Movement: “REDD is racist”
By Chris Lang The April 2016 issue of the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, titled “Racism in the Forests: A process of oppression at the service of capital”, includes an article by Larry Lohmann of the Corner House. In his article, Lohmann argues that REDD is racist.