A new IPPC report tells us climate change is happening. A new book by McKenzie Funk tells us how corporations are profiting from climate change.
More carbon credit boiler rooms: ASJ International and Tower Trade
Here’s a comment from a couple of months ago on REDD-Monitor: “I invested with ASJ International Dec 2012 and now cannot get hold of them. Any news?”
Schwarzenegger profits from destructive logging companies
New research by Global Witness and Profundo reveals that Arnold Schwarzenegger is part owner of an investment company that holds shares in some of the world’s most destructive logging companies.
Norway’s REDD deal has “triggered promising reformation processes” in Indonesia, say Rainforest Foundation Norway and AMAN
Earlier this month, I wrote an article for Development Today, in which I asked whether Norway’s rainforest billions have had any influence on rates of deforestation in either Brazil or Indonesia.
Comments on the Guyana Forestry Commission’s Annual Reports, 2005-2012
In recent months, the Guyana Forestry Commission has released a series of annual reports, dating from 2005 to 2012. Janette Bulkan and John Palmer wrote a series of five articles for the Stabroek News commenting on the annual reports and recommending that the National Assembly should hold public hearings on the GFC.