On 23 May 2012, the Salvadoran National Indigenous Coordinating Council (CCNIS) wrote to Benoît Bosquet, coordinator of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). The letter demands the rejection of the Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) submitted by El Salvador’s Environment Ministry.
Thailand: “Stop prosecuting land reform activists”
Last week, activists delivered a letter to Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, urging her to “stop prosecuting Thai citizens who are engaged in public campaigns for agrarian reform, and to give urgent priority to redistributive land reforms and equitable resolution of the land conflicts”.
“This project has been a total failure,” says Australian Senator Christine Milne about the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership
When it was launched in 2007, Australia’s Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership was going to be “practical climate change action that could deliver immediate and tangible benefits”. But five years later, the project has little more to show for the A$30 million spent than 50,000 tree seedlings planted.* That’s 0.05% of the target of 100 million…
Forest tenure rights and REDD: Most laws in Asia and Africa, “meaningless or unenforced”
Land rights are crucial to REDD. This week, the Rights and Resources Initiative released a study that found an increase in community land rights in tropical forests, but at the same time most land laws in Asia and Africa remain “either meaningless or unenforced”.
The World Bank’s spin on carbon markets
“The total value of the carbon market grew by 11 percent in 2011, to $176 billion”, the World Bank announced this week. The occasion was the launch of the Bank’s “State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2012”. But as Oscar Reyes notes, the carbon market growth is “more spin than substance”.