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Can REDD save the rainforests of Papua and West Papua? (Part 2)

Posted on 24 January 201926 January 2019

Earlier this week, REDD-Monitor wrote about a 2,800 square kilometre oil palm plantation that threatens a huge area of forest in the district of Boven Digoel in the east of Papua Province. REDD proponents are silent on how REDD could stop this destruction and to prevent the setting off of a deforestation carbon bomb.

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Can REDD save the rainforests of Papua and West Papua? (Part 1)

Posted on 22 January 201922 January 2019

In April 2007, the governors of Aceh, Papua and West Papua held a summit in Bali, backed by the World Bank. They offered to stop deforestation in return for international carbon financing. Dorjee Sun’s company Carbon Conservation was going to trade the carbon credits.

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Brazil: The Suruí REDD project has been suspended indefinitely

Posted on 20 September 2018

The Suruí Forest Carbon Project in Brazil has been suspended indefinitely as a result of illegal diamond and gold mining, as well as illegal logging, inside the 248,147 hectare territory of the Suruí.

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The Suruí Forest Carbon Project faces illegal logging, gold and diamond mining. Almir Suruí is looking for alternatives to carbon

Posted on 3 October 201714 January 2021

How REDD has failed to save the Suruí’s forest, despite massive international support.

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Deforestation is increasing in the Brazilian Amazon

Posted on 27 April 201729 November 2022

By Chris Lang In 2011, REDD-Monitor asked “Can REDD save the Amazon?”. Six years later, after Norway has poured more than US$1 billion into REDD in Brazil, it is clear that REDD is not a solution to Amazon deforestation. Deforestation fell from 2004 to 2012, but the reasons were nothing to do with REDD. Now…

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