The N’hambita experiment has failed. Envirotrade’s project in Mozambique is not raising enough money from sales of carbon credits.
The Carbon Cowboy: David Nilsson on 60 Minutes Australia
By Chris Lang David Nilsson arrived in Peru two years ago and promised indigenous communities billions of dollars in return for signing over the rights to their forests. This week, 60 Minutes Australia broadcast an investigation into Nilsson’s operations in Peru and elsewhere.
If Indonesia’s President is serious about addressing deforestation, why is Tripa still ablaze?
“Forests are so dear to my heart,” said Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in September 2011. In the same speech, he said he would dedicate the next three years to protecting Indonesia’s forests. So why are the Tripa peat swamp forests in Aceh still burning to make way for oil palm plantations?
“An inability to see the forests for the carbon?” FERN’s report from the Bonn climate meeting
The Bonn climate talks in May 2012 were the first negotiations under the Durban Platform, agreed at the Conference of Polluters in December 2011. A recent report by Kate Dooley of FERN outlines how the talks on REDD in Bonn developed.
The strange case of Brett Goldsworthy
Brett Goldsworthy was recently on Today Tonight Adelaide after appearing in court over allegations that he pretended to be terminally ill to avoid paying tax.