Carbon colonialism: New report by the Oakland Institute documents the ongoing impacts of Green Resources’ industrial tree plantations on local communities in Uganda.
Indigenous Peoples and Southern Civil Society observers to the FCPF respond to NGOs’ call for the World Bank to suspend its REDD programme. Rainforest Foundation UK replies: “We trust that as observers you will seriously consider both the lack of meaningful progress on REDD Readiness as well as the very worrying reports emerging from certain ER Programmes”
To mark the tenth anniversary of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, more than a dozen NGOs signed a letter to the Bank calling for the suspension of the FCPF. “This approach to forest protection simply has not worked,” they wrote.
NGOs call for suspension of World Bank’s REDD programme: “This approach to forest protection simply has not worked”
This week saw the tenth anniversary of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. To mark the anniversary, more than a dozen NGOs wrote to the Bank calling for the suspension of the FCPF. After ten years and over US$1 billion committed, the NGOs write, “FCPF cannot point to a single gram of carbon that…
A new project aimed at stopping forest fires in Aceh province, Indonesia involves blockchain, a smart contract, a decentralised platform for Ethereum, and Dorjee Sun. What could possibly go wrong?
Dorjee Sun is the CEO of Carbon Conservation, a company set up 10 years ago to run REDD projects. The company’s first REDD project was the Ulu Masen REDD project, in Aceh province on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Sun partnered with Aceh’s “green governor”, Yusuf Irwandi, and Flora and Fauna International, to run the…
A company calling itself “Capital Advisory Group” is running a recovery room scam
In October 2017, “Oscar” left a comment on REDD-Monitor. “I have been contacted by Capital Advisory Group Ireland re my carbon credits,” Oscar wrote.