By Chris Lang In July 2016, the Walt Disney Company agreed to hand over US$2.6 million for carbon credits from a REDD project in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province.
A glimpse inside a boiler room
Most of the people I hear about who have worked in boiler rooms write to ask to have their names removed from either a post or a comment on REDD-Monitor.
The aviation industry’s plan to offset emissions from flying is crazy
If it were a country, aviation would be the seventh largest greenhouse gas emitter. Flying is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases.Between 1990 and 2012, emissions from flying increased by 76%.
Indonesia: Fires, peat restoration, kidnappings, and more fires
It’s the fire season in Indonesia. The haze is not as bad as last year, but once again Riau province in Sumatra was shrouded in smoke. Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency has set itself the target of putting out the fires by October.
Who pays the price for protected areas? New website launched to expose global protected area abuses
Yesterday, I launched a new website: Conservation Watch. While conservation is crucially important, it has a dark side. No one knows how many people have been evicted to make way for National Parks. But some estimates put the figure in millions.