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California postpones decision on Tropical Forest Standard until April 2019

Posted on 20 November 201825 June 2019

At the end of last week, California’s Air Resources Board held a public meeting to consider the endorsement of the California Tropical Forest Standard. After several hours and dozens of testimonies for and against the Tropical Forest Standard, the Board decided to postpone making a decision until April 2019.

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Climate denial, California style

Posted on 13 November 201811 January 2019

On 16 November 2018, a public meeting will take place to discuss the California Tropical Forest Standard. The debate so far about the proposal to include REDD offsets in California’s cap and trade scheme reveals that the California Air Resources Board is heavily biased in favour of carbon trading and is not interested in addressing…

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A glimpse at Brazil reveals the big REDD problems that California’s Tropical Forest Standard fails to address

Posted on 3 October 2018

On 5 September 2018, the California Air Resources Board released a draft California Tropical Forest Standard. A 191-page Draft Environmental Analysis was released on 14 September 2018. A public meeting will take place on 15 November 2018, and the California Air Resources Board is inviting comments on the Environmental Analysis before 5 pm on 29…

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Indigenous Peoples protest REDD in California: “No carbon colonialism. No REDD+”

Posted on 13 September 201821 February 2020

This week sees the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, USA. Organised by California’s governor, Jerry Brown, the Global Climate Action Summit runs from 12 to 14 September 2018.

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Governor Brown: If you care about climate change, stop drilling for oil. REDD is a dangerous distraction

Posted on 24 August 201824 August 2018

In the last few weeks, California’s governor Jerry Brown has received two letters about climate change. One recommends that he should take meaningful action on climate change. The other recommends that he should provide a loophole to allow the oil industry to continue polluting.

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