A recent article in Bloomberg looks at how Norway is planning to continue its greenhouse gas emissions. “Norway is wagering it will be easier to cut carbon emissions overseas than at home,” writes Bloomberg journalist Mathew Carr.
Plantations are not forests!
21 March was International Day of Forests. The theme this year, chosen by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation was “Forests | Climate | Change”. FAO explains that this theme was chosen “purposely to highlight the ways in which forests and climate change are linked, and to rally global support for greater action and change”.
Eco Business Management: Another carbon credit boiler room scam bites the dust
Eco Business Management, a company that sold carbon credits to the public as investments, has been closed down in the High Court in London for misleading potential investors. REDD-Monitor wrote about Eco Business Management in October 2014.
REDD safeguards: What are they?
The text on REDD safeguards was agreed in 2010 at the UN climate negotiations in Cancún, Mexico. What exactly are these safeguards? This post takes a detailed look at the text of the seven safeguards agreed in Cancún.
The Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon. Or, why we can’t rely on forests to solve climate change
By Chris Lang A paper published this week in Nature concludes that the Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon. In the past decade, the carbon absorbed by the Amazon each year has decreased by about one-third.