REDD-Monitor first wrote about MH Carbon in January 2013. At the time the company was selling carbon credits to retail investors. Since then, the company has gone into liquidation – first voluntary, then compulsory.
Can REDD save Indonesia’s peatlands from burning?
The Straits Times reports that the bill for this year’s fires in Indonesia could be as high as US$33 billion, citing preliminary estimates by President Joko Widodo’s administration.
Cameroon’s REDD plans critiqued by NGOs ahead of World Bank meeting
Next week sees the 13th meeting of the World Bank’s Carbon Fund, under its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. Cameroon is one the countries that will be presenting its Emission Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN).
Sustainable Development Goals: Madness, false hopes and verbal fudge
At the end of last month, the Sustainable Development Goals were launched in New York. One of the goals is to eliminate poverty by 2030. This is to be achieved by continued economic growth.
A message to the UNFCCC: To stop climate crimes, leave fossil fuels in the ground
“Concretely, governments have to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and to freeze fossil fuel extraction by leaving untouched 80% of all existing fossil fuel reserves.” That’s the demand in a statement signed by Naomi Klein, Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva.