The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) held a Council of Ministers meeting on 14-15 August 2014, 2014 at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The SADC People’s Summit took place as a parallel event in Baluawayo, Zimbabwe.
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Paved with good intentions: REDD’s road to oblivion
“The Tropical Forestry Action Plan is fatally flawed. Far from curbing forest loss, the Plan will accelerate deforestation.” That’s Marcus Colchester and Larry Lohmann writing about another plan to save tropical forests.
If the World Bank dismantles its safeguards, what would that mean for REDD?
Four years ago, Simon Counsell, the director of the Rainforest Foundation UK, was quoted in the Observer as saying that “REDD needs to be taken out of the hands of the World Bank”.
Is the REDD+ Partnership closing down? And should we care?
In a recent message to REDD+ Partners and observers, the co-chairs of the REDD+ Partnership write, “We work under the assumption that the Partnership work program ends in Lima.” Will the REDD+ Partnership close down after its meeting in November 2014?
“Carbon Fund Participants note their current willingness to pay up to US$5/t CO2e”
Yesterday, I wrote about a discussion in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility about the price of REDD credits and how much the Carbon Fund was prepared to pay.