Before the World Bank’s Carbon Fund meeting last month, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) wrote to the participants of the meeting, expressing concerns about Guyana’s proposal to the Carbon Fund.
Will the World Bank fund Guyana’s hot air proposal?
At the end of April 2015, the World Bank’s Carbon Fund held its 12th meeting in Paris. James Singh, head of the Guyana Forestry Commission, gave an “Early Idea Presentation” on Guyana’s Emission Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN).
“Bai Shan Lin has most certainly contravened laws, regulations and approved policies of Guyana”
In August 2014, after a series of articles in the Guyanese media about Chinese company Bai Shan Lin’s logging operations, a Guyanese PhD student wrote to the Norwegian government with a simple question: Is the Low Carbon Development Strategy just a sham?
Corruption and REDD in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Corruption and REDD: A recent U4 report documents the extent of corruption in REDD implementation in DRC.
The Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (BVRio): Trading away Brazil’s forests
Founded in October 2011, the Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro, BVRio) is a market for trading “environmental assets”, including carbon credits, forest credits, industrial effluent credits, tire disposal credits, and recycling credits.