At the end of April 2015, the World Bank’s Carbon Fund held its 12th meeting in Paris. James Singh, head of the Guyana Forestry Commission, gave an “Early Idea Presentation” on Guyana’s Emission Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN).
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Sorry. Prince Ea’s apology to future generations is nice, but carbon trading won’t stop climate change
US rapper Prince Ea put out a video this week to mark Earth Day. It’s called “Dear Future Generations: Sorry”, and it’s gone viral, with more than 25 million views on Facebook.
Everybody knows how not to cut down trees, so why is REDD so difficult to implement?
Since 2009, CIFOR has been carrying out research into 23 REDD projects around the world, as part of its Global Comparative Study on REDD+. Three years into the research, CIFOR realised that REDD was “barely moving ahead”, as William Sunderlin, principal scientist at CIFOR, puts it.
Banking Nature. Or cashing in on the destruction of nature
Banking Nature, a new documentary film,looks at the Brave New World of species banking, biodiversity offsets, wetlands credits, and putting a price on nature.
Plantations are not forests!
21 March was International Day of Forests. The theme this year, chosen by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation was “Forests | Climate | Change”. FAO explains that this theme was chosen “purposely to highlight the ways in which forests and climate change are linked, and to rally global support for greater action and change”.