The agreement between the Central African Forest Initiative and D.R. Congo could result in millions of hectares of logging concessions.
Tag: Deforestation

The Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project in Brazil is still selling carbon offsets despite failing to stop deforestation
Resex Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project: Deforestation is slightly higher than the “without project” baseline. Yet carbon credits from the project are still on sale.

Conservation International admits failures in its Alto Mayo Protected Forest REDD project in Peru. But uses the failures as part of its success narrative
Conservation International admits failures in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest. But instead of looking at the politics behind these failures, it uses them to boost its success narrative.

NGOs call for Papua New Guinea’s politicians to address illegal logging and deforestation
Papua New Guinea’s politicians hypocritically claim to be saviours of the rainforest, while allowing forest destruction to continue.

Indonesia: Zero deforestation by 2030 is “inappropriate and unfair”
The day after Indonesia signed the Glasgow Declaration on Forests, Indonesia’s Minister for Environment said zero deforestation by 2030 is “inappropriate and unfair”