A recent meeting in Indonesia addressed three important issues facing the future of the forests in the country: gazettement of state forest; exclusion of indigenous peoples’ forest from the state forest; and the resolution of forestry conflicts.
VCS Registry “has not and cannot provide advice to individuals about what companies to use to sell carbon credits”
If you’ve bought carbon credits as an investment, you would probably be pleased to hear from someone from the VCS Registry offering help with selling your carbon credits. Unfortunately, that’s not someone from the VCS Registry on the phone, it’s another scammer.
Response from James Richards, Baron Traders: “I would therefore ask that this link is removed ASAP”
In August 2013, REDD-Monitor wrote about a company called Baron Traders, a Gibraltar registered company that sold carbon credits as investments. Much of the post was based on a series of articles written in 2011 by Richard Smith on the Naked Capitalism website.
Kevin Anderson: Relying on market based instruments to address climate change is “doomed to failure and is a dangerous distraction”
By Chris Lang Kevin Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester. He’s one of the UK’s leading climate scientists. In a recent post on his website, he explains “Why carbon prices can’t deliver the 2°C target”.
Empty promises: All that remains of Indonesia’s climate plans
At the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh in 2009, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Indonesia’s President famously promised that Indonesia would reduce its emissions by 26% by 2020 from business as usual. With international suppport, he said, Indonesia could reduce emissions by 41%. Four years on and there’s practically nothing to show for Yudhoyono’s promises.