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Paraguay deforestation

Open letter to the Green Climate Fund opposing REDD results-based payments in Paraguay

Posted on 9 November 20193 April 2020

By Chris Lang A group of Paraguayan and international organisations have sent an open letter to the board of the Green Climate Fund which will meet in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 12 to 14 November 2019. Several of the funding requests under consideration are related to REDD, including an extraordinarily bad proposal to subsidise…

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Who Watches the Watchmen? 2

Greenwash: How the RSPO fails to uphold its own rules

Posted on 5 November 20193 April 2020

By Chris Lang The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil operates under the slogan, “Transforming markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm”. Created in 2004, the RSPO is supposed to reassure consumers and manufacturers that products with the RSPO label are not linked to rainforest destruction, human rights abuses, or habitat destruction of endangered species…

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REDD in Guyana: Elite agendas, political temporalities, and the politics of environmental policy failure

Posted on 10 October 20197 April 2020

By Chris Lang In 2009, Norway launched Guyana’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation programme. Back then, it was an amibitious US$250 million scheme. Ten years later Guyana’s REDD has been almost completely abandoned.

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Hate to say I told you so, but the New York Forest Declaration has utterly failed to stop deforestation

Posted on 19 September 201926 June 2020

Launched five years ago, the New York Declaration on Forests included a commitment “to cut natural forest loss in half by 2020, and strive to end it by 2030”. But the pledges made by governments, multinational companies, NGOs, and indigenous peoples organisations have utterly failed to address deforestation.

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Crocodile skin shoes, corruption, oil exploration, deforestation, and the Republic of Congo

Posted on 17 September 201928 October 2019

Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote about the US$65 million that the Central African Forest Initiative is giving to the Republic of Congo, supposedly to stop deforestation.

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