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NGOs call for the Swedish Energy Agency to cancel carbon credit purchase from Green Resources’ monoculture plantations in Uganda

Posted on 11 March 201629 October 2018

Yesterday, a group of NGOs wrote to the Swedish Energy Agency calling for the Agency to cancel its contract to buy carbon credits from Green Resources’ plantations in Uganda.

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The Swedish Energy Agency has frozen carbon credit purchases from Norwegian plantation firm Green Resources

Posted on 27 November 20155 September 2022

Green Resources: Investigative reports by the Oakland Institute and Swedish TV led to the Swedish Energy Agency freezing carbon credit purchases until Green Resources meets a series of demands.

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How the World Bank’s safeguards failed to uphold human rights in Honduras and Kenya

Posted on 19 June 201523 June 2015

At COP16 in Cancun at the end of 2010, parties to the UNFCCC agreed that, “Parties should, in all climate change related actions, fully respect human rights.” Since then, however, there has been no further guidance. And the word “should” rather than “shall” is worrying, to say the least.

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Jens Frølich Holte, political adviser to Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment, explains why he supports using markets and pricing carbon

Posted on 17 April 201530 November 2015

In March 2015, Bloomberg quoted Jens Frølich Holte, political adviser to Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment, as saying that, “Carbon trading can speed up the global transition away from a fossil economy. Trade creates benefits and this is as true for carbon as it is for other commodities.”

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More on Green Resources’ plantations in Uganda: Response from Oakland Institute to Mads Asprem

Posted on 13 November 201412 April 2018

Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote about a Norwegian company called Green Resources and the company’s carbon plantations in Uganda. A report published by the Oakland Institute coined the term “carbon violence” to describe the impact of the plantations on local people.

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