Plantations are not forests!

International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations: How WWF and the African Development Bank are promoting land grabs in Africa

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By Chris Lang Yesterday was the 16th International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations. In 2004, rural communities in Brazil declared the day to commemorate the resistance against the expansion of monoculture tree plantations in Brazil. Through solidarity statements and actions around the world the day has evolved to become an International Day of…

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The Green Climate Fund Board discussion about Colombia’s REDD+ funding proposal: Concerns about environmental integrity, “could have been funded by the GCF outside of the REDD+ pilot programme”, reservations about GCF’s REDD+ scorecard, Colombia is not a high forest low deforestation country, and any emissions reductions already reversed. The Board approved funding anyway

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By Chris Lang In August 2020, the Green Climate Fund approved US$28.2 million for “results-based” funding to Colombia, for the period 2015 to 2016. In the presentation of the proposed REDD payments, the Green Climate Fund Secretariat acknowledged that deforestation in Colombia, particularly in the Amazon, had increased since the Peace Agreement in 2016.

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A critical revision of REDD from an intersectional gender perspective

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By Chris Lang “As a thoroughly socially and gender just approach, sustainable development requires addressing the socio-economic, political and ecological inequalities and power asymmetries through an intersectional gender lens. Intersectional feminist perspectives enable to see that indigenous and other marginalized rural women play a crucial role in engaging with climate change, reducing deforestation and sustainable…

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