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Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading

The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading

Posted on 15 January 202118 January 2021

The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading revisited, 16 years later.

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REDD in Cambodia

Sarah Milne on REDD in Cambodia: “Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders”

Posted on 29 December 202030 December 2020

REDD in Cambodia. Three things make Sarah Milne, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, uncomfortable about REDD credits: Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders.

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Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy on what’s wrong with REDD: “Once again, the Global North, the creators of the problem, will see to it that they profit from the solution that they propose”

Posted on 28 December 202028 December 2020

By Chris Lang Arundhati Roy is one of my favourite writers. Over Christmas, I’ve been reading her book Azadi. The book is a series of essays about Hindu nationalism, India’s occupation of Kashmir, and the coronavirus pandemic. As far as I’m aware, she hasn’t (yet) written specifically about carbon markets or REDD. But in a…

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy’s fake forest offsets

Posted on 14 December 202015 December 2020

By Chris Lang Last week, Bloomberg Green published a great article about The Nature Conservancy and how it became “a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets”.

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More than 70 California environmental justice groups oppose Mary Nichols to head the US Environmental Protection Agency

Posted on 4 December 20204 December 2020

By Chris Lang Mary Nichols, the chair of the California Air Resources Board since 2007, is a leading contender to head the Environmental Protection Agency under the new US President-Elect Joe Biden. “If they offered it, I would take it,” Nichols told the Associated Press.

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