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Geographies of Evasion: The case of the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia

Posted on 11 January 201316 February 2017

Cambodia’s forests face huge threats from illegal logging, mining and land concessions for plantation crops for export like rubber and sugar. Oddar Meanchey province in the country’s northwest has the highest rate of deforestation of any province in the country. Which should make Oddar Meanchey the perfect place for a REDD project.

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OPIC political risk insurance for the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia: Who benefits?

Posted on 26 June 20129 January 2018

In November 2011, the US Government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) provided the world’s first political risk insurance policy for a carbon offset project. A recent report by Pacific Environment, FERN and Focus on the Global South questions who stands to benefit from this insurance.

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“Worse than doing nothing”: Shell’s REDD offsets in Indonesia and Peru

Posted on 19 November 202019 November 2020

By Chris Lang Shell promises drivers in Denmark that they can become “CO2 neutral” when they buy carbon offsets with the petrol on sale in Shell’s petrol stations. Recently, three investigative journalists with the Danish newspaper Politiken spoke to a series of experts who point out that customers cannot trust Shell’s forest conservation promises. Morten…

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“Aviation will try anything apart from leaving fossil fuels in the ground”

Posted on 3 February 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang 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.

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How the poorest of the poor end up paying for REDD

Posted on 11 April 201914 January 2021

By Chris Lang I wrote this post in June 2018, for iz3w (Informationszentrum 3. welt), an organisation based in Freiburg, Germany. A German translation of an edited version is published in the May/June 2019 issue titled, “Klimawandel” (Climate change). The following is the unedited version.

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