“You can find almost everything in Indonesia,” said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the first Indonesia Investment Day in New York last month. “Oil and gas, coal, geothermal energy, tin, copper, nickel, aluminum, bauxite, iron, cacao, coffee. When it comes to oil, we have oil underground, under the sea and even above the ground: palm…
Indigenous Peoples speak out against California’s carbon offsets scheme: “You cannot trade pollution for nature”
An international delegation of indigenous leaders from Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador is currently in California to oppose California’s proposed carbon offset scheme. The scheme could allow companies in California to meet limits on greenhouse gas emissions by buying carbon credits rather than reducing pollution at home.
A few questions for Nicholas Stern (and a book review)
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, is a British economist. After a spell as the World Bank’s chief economist, he worked for the British government and in 2006 produced the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.
Global Forest Coalition intervention in UN biodiversity meeting: “Forest policy is much more than REDD+”
Simone Lovera of Global Forest Coalition points out that “Forest policy is much more than REDD+”.
Bolivia’s Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism: An alternative to REDD?
In August 2012, the Bolivian government presented a proposal to the UNFCCC titled “Proposal for the Development of the Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Integral and Sustainable Management of Forests”.