The World Bank’s inspection panel has found that the Bank violated its safeguards in a conservation project in the Cherangany Hills in Kenya. Thousands of Sengwer indigenous people have been evicted and their homes burned down.
The New York Declaration on Forests: An agreement to continue deforestation until 2030
How the New York Declaration on Forests came from Davos to New York, via Washington. But skipped Brasilia.
Carbon Neutral Offsets, Paul Mark Green’s company has disappeared. “Proof is in the pudding when it comes to any business,” Green said in 2013
In December 2012, Paul Mark Green set up a company that claimed to provide an exit strategy for people conned into buying carbon credits as investments. For a fee, of course.
Don’t plant trees to address climate change. Instead, leave fossil fuels in the ground
Last week, the New York Times published an article that argues that, “The science says that spending precious dollars for climate change mitigation on forestry is high-risk”. It is written by Nadine Unger, an assistant professor of atmospheric chemistry at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.
Gangster Squad, the FCPF and the Carbon Fund
Gangster Squad is a film set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s. The Police Chief decides to set up a special unit to fight gangster Mickey Cohen. The six members of the police vigilante “Gangster Squad” carry guns but no badges.