Kevin Conrad was back in Papua New Guinea earlier this month to sign an MoU about selling carbon credits from PNG’s forests.
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The World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s latest hot air scam: Retroactive credits
The World Bank’s FCPF recently changed its rules to allow governments to sell REDD credits from before emission reductions programmes even started.
Greenpeace and the Wildlife Trusts raise concerns about Mark Carney’s carbon offsets plan: “A giant get-out-of-jail-free card for polluting companies”
A letter from Greenpeace UK and the Wildlife Trusts is critical of Mark Carney’s carbon offsetting plans. But not critical enough.
The Green Gigaton Challenge: Bringing REDD back from the dead, using Norway’s oil money to “grease the wheels”
By Chris Lang Thomson Reuters Foundation recently reported that, “Norway is doubling the price it guarantees developing nations to keep their tropical forests standing, in a step to slow catastrophic losses and encourage big companies to invest far more in nature to combat climate change.”
Colombia is evaluating Winrock International’s Architecture for REDD+ Transactions standard
By Chris Lang In December 2019, the governments of Colombia, Norway, Germany, and the UK signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on REDD and promoting sustainable development in Colombia. In August 2020, Ricardo José Lozano Picón, Colombia’s minister for Environment and Sustainable Development wrote to Mary Grady at Winrock International, to tell her that Colombia…