The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) industrial plantations project is having serious impacts on people and forests in Papua province, Indonesia. Forest Peoples Programme’s Sophie Chao visited the project area earlier this year and reports that “disease and undernourishment are rampant”.
Guest Post: REDD+ fails the world’s forests and climate
Wally Menne is a South African environmental campaigner and a member of the Timberwatch Coalition. Since the mid-1990s, Timberwatch has exposed and monitored the environmental and social impacts of industrial tree plantations.
REDD+ for the poor or the poor for REDD+?
“REDD+ projects can be expected to have poor social and environmental outcomes unless they use substantially different approaches, which build on the capabilities of the wide range of local natural resource managers to undertake efficient resource management and conservation in the Amazon.”
Glenleigh Trading: Would you buy a used carbon credit from this company?
By Chris Lang Glenleigh Trading is a UK company selling carbon credits as investments. The company claims to have specialised in emissions trading “for many years”. Pretty impressive for a company that was registered in 2011 and whose only director, Christy John Browne, is 23 years old.
“Appropriate market based mechanisms cannot include trading carbon as offsets”: Accra Caucus intervention during UN REDD finance workshop
Last week a UN meeting on results based finance for REDD took place in Bonn, Germany. “Workshop on results-based finance for the full implementation of the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70”, to give it its full title. The aim of the UN work programme on REDD finance is to “contribute to the…