In the latest issue of the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Jutta Kill writes that the COP 25 UN climate negotiations held in Madrid in December 2019, “will be remembered as the moment where the UN and conservation industry discourse and propaganda over REDD+ were replaced by the new forest conservation fad: Nature-Based-Solutions”.
Tag: Carbon Offsets
Indonesia’s Katingan REDD project sells carbon credits to Shell. But that doesn’t mean the forest is protected. It’s threatened by land conflicts, fires and a palm oil plantation
The Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project covers an area of about 150,000 hectares in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The project was created in 2007 by an Indonesian company called PT Rimba Makmur Utama. The director of the company is Dharsono Hartono.
Carbon offsets and tax havens: ClimateCare, Bunge, and Tricorona
Tax havens exist so that individuals and corporations can avoid paying income taxes. Registering a company in a tax haven is not illegal. Just a way of avoiding paying tax.
Can flying go green? Spoiler alert: No
This week, the British TV programme Panorama asked the question, “Can flying go green?” “Our passion for plane travel is warming the planet,” says Panorama’s reporter, Justin Rowlatt. “Tonight we investigate how the industry is trying to clean up its act, and ask how much can we trust their environmental promises?” About as far as…
Tell the the Green Climate Fund: No to IFC subsidies for REDD offsets! No to REDD funding!
The Board of the Green Climate Fund will meet in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 12 to 14 November 2019. Several funding requests are related to REDD, in Chile, Paraguay, and Laos. Particularly egregious is a funding request from the International Finance Corporation for a “Multi-Country Forest Bonds Programme”. The IFC programme would subsidise private…