Amazon tipping point: If the Amazon tips from rainforest to savanna it would be a disaster for the people living in the forest and for the world’s climate.
Tag: Deforestation
Brazilian state of Tocantins teams up with Mercuria Energy Trading to sell 200 million imaginary jurisdictional REDD carbon credits
Brazilian state of Tocantins has agreed a deal with Mercuria Energy Trading to sell 200 million fictitious jurisdictional carbon credits, to be generated between 2016 and 2032.
The Amazon tipping point crisis
The Amazon tipping point at which the rainforest undergoes a process of savannisation has in places already started, a new report argues.
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.