On 29 January 2020, 80 heavily armed settlers attacked the community of Alal, a Mayangna indigenous community, in Nicaragua. Reports vary, but as many as six indigenous people may have been killed and 10 others kidnapped.
For an economics that takes the climate science seriously
In 2018, the economist William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economics. The prize was awarded to Nordhaus for “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis.”
REDD in the news: 27 January – 2 February 2020
REDD-Monitor’s round-up of the week’s news on forests, the climate crisis, REDD, and natural climate solutions. For regular updates, follow @reddmonitor on Twitter.
“Aviation will try anything apart from leaving fossil fuels in the ground”
For several years, REDD-Monitor has been raising the alarm about the aviation industry’s crazy plans to increase its greenhouse gas emissions massively using carbon offsets as a substitute for meaningful action to address the climate crisis.
Carbon offsets: Australian airline Qantas makes misleading claims about “empowering rainforest communities”, while making the climate crisis worse
In October 2019, Andrew Penman, a journalist at The Mirror contacted REDD-Monitor. I’d been in touch with Penman a few times in the past, mainly because he’s one of the few journalists in the UK who has regularly exposed the boiler room scams selling carbon credits as investments to retail investors.