How REDD has failed to save the Suruí’s forest, despite massive international support.
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Carbon Black: A conspiracy thriller about REDD in Papua New Guinea
It’s the end of the decade. Nearly 30 years of United Nations negotiations have left us with nothing more than REDD and piecemeal carbon markets to address climate change. The UN has set up a Global Carbon Markets Organisation (GCMO) to try to make the carbon markets work.
Carbon trading is “A con man’s dream”
Carbon cowboys. VAT carousel fraud. Double-counting. Hackers. A fake bomb scare in the Czech Republic’s carbon registry. Phishing via fake carbon registry websites. Invented carbon credits. Overvalued carbon credits. Boiler rooms. Imaginary baselines. Auditors with conflicts of interest.
REDD Plus or REDD “Light”? Biodiversity, communities and forest carbon certification
REDD plust or REDD “Light”? New report from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation with four case studies of REDD projects.
Interview with Chris Lang, REDD-Monitor: Carbon Markets and REDD in South-East Asia
Oliver Pye is a lecturer in South-Eeast Asian Studies at Bonn University, focussing on globalisation, social movements, and the social relations of nature in South-East Asia. An interview he did with me last year was recently published in the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies.