Indonesia is now half way through its two-year moratorium on forest concessions. The moratorium was implemented as part of a US$1 billion REDD deal between Indonesia and Norway. Most of Norway’s money is to be performance based, and given the results so far, it doesn’t look like Norway will be handing over much cash any…
What if forests started dying because of climate change? Oh wait… they already are
By Chris Lang Little progress seems to have been made at the UN climate negotiations in Bonn over the past two weeks. Meanwhile, climate change is already having a serious impact on forests, through the increase in severity and frequency of droughts, fires and/or beetle attacks.
The atmosphere business
The most recent issue of the journal ephemera is titled “The atmosphere business”. It “takes on the political and economic logic of the atmosphere business, putting it under renewed critical scrutiny”, questioning the underlying ideologies and assumptions and the contradiction of “climate capitalism”.
Critical views of California’s carbon offsets from the USA and Mexico
Two views of California’s new cap and trade programme, both looking at problematic forestry offsets. The first looks into carbon offsets from forestry operations in California. The second looks at the impact of REDD-type projects in Chiapas, Mexico.
Corruption and REDD: “It is highly unlikely that we will find a country where forms of corruption linked to REDD+ are non-existent”
“REDD+ is being promoted and funded in countries where corruption has been, or continues to be, a pivotal factor in the political economy of forest use.” This statement is from a recent briefing by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway.