Since 2002, a moratorium on new industrial logging concessions has helped protect the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now the government of DRC wants to open up its forests to more logging. As much as 35% of the country’s forest could be threatened with destruction.
REDD in the news: 8-14 May 2017
REDD-Monitor’s round-up of the week’s news on forests, climate change, and REDD. For regular updates, follow @reddmonitor on Twitter.
Renwick Haddow is Chief Executive Officer of Bar Works Inc. That’s bad news for investors
Bar Works is a US-based company apparently hoping to copy the success of WeWork in the co-working sector. But in January 2017, an article on the US property website The Real Deal, exposed the role of Renwick Haddow in Bar Works.
Trump’s press adviser, Sean Spicer, explains the US position on Paris: Trump wants “to continue to meet with his team”
Yesterday, in a press briefing in the White House, President Trump’s press adviser, Sean Spicer, spoke about Trump’s discussions with his advisers about whether or not to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
Will the US leave the Paris Agreement? And will the UN kick out polluting corporations?
Yet another UN climate conference is taking place in Bonn. This week and next week sees the forty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. And the third part of the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement.