The Amazon tipping point at which the rainforest undergoes a process of savannisation has in places already started, a new report argues.
Tag: Deforestation
Democratic Republic of Congo threatens to release its carbon bomb
Democratic Republic of Congo is planning to release a carbon bomb by auctioning 30 oil and gas blocks overlapping rainforests and peatlands.
The Central African Forest Initiative is promoting industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The agreement between the Central African Forest Initiative and D.R. Congo could result in millions of hectares of logging concessions.
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.