Dr Bernice Maxton-Lee is the author of Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia: A Political Economy Study of International Governance Failure, published in 2020 by Routledge. She submitted this Guest Post about deforestation in Indonesia.
Myths and deforestation
By Chris Lang “Unearthing the myths of global sustainable forest governance” is a paper published earlier this year in Global Sustainability. “One particularly dominant idea is that sustainability problems can be solved by treating them as predominantly economic problems to be solved by market-based instruments or by mobilizing enough financial resources,” the authors note in…
UPDATED – Chloride Eastern Limited is still being cloned by scammers
By Chris Lang In March 2020, REDD-Monitor wrote about a scam company that was cloning Chloride Eastern Limited. The fraudsters were contacting people out of the blue, claiming that they could sell the carbon credits that they had been scammed into buying as an investment.
REDD notes: 18 August 2020
By Chris Lang This week’s REDD notes. Follow @reddmonitor on Twitter for more links to news about forests, the climate crisis, natural climate solutions, the oil industry, greenwash, carbon offsetting, etc.
Sign the letter to the Green Climate Fund: No REDD+ “results-based payments”
The Green Climate Fund Board will hold a virtual meeting between 18 and 21 August 2020. Included in the funding requests are two for REDD+ “result-based payments”: Indonesia REDD-plus RBP for results period 2014-2016; and Colombia REDD+ Results-based Payments for results period 2015-2016.