Norway’s forest and climate policy is useful for politicians to avoid difficult decisions, argue Tor A. Benjaminsen and Hanne Svarstad. But it will not address the climate crisis.
Tag: Financing REDD
The Glasgow Declaration on Forests is far from “unprecedented”. It’s just another in a long line of meaningless UN declarations
Why the Glasgow Declaration on Forests isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Re-branding REDD: How the LEAF Coalition aims to greenwash Big Polluters like Delta Airlines, Amazon, Bayer, Nestlé, Salesforce, and Unilever
The LEAF Coalition is a public-private scheme to greenwash Big Polluters, generate vast amounts of carbon credits, and will result in a massive carbon grab.
Banking on Nature: HSBC partners with Pollination for US$6 billion “natural capital” investment
By Chris Lang HSBC Global Asset Management and Pollination Group have announced a series of planned billion-dollar funds targetting “natural capital”. The new venture will be called HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management and aims to raise US$6 billion from institutional investors. But handing over conservation to bankers and neoliberal economists will be a disaster for…
Coronavirus notes #1: The magic money tree and universal basic income
By Chris Lang This post is the first in an occasional REDD-Monitor series collecting together some thoughts around the coronavirus crisis. Forests, deforestation and the climate crisis may seem distant problems when we’re all facing the threat of a deadly virus. But when the coronavirus crisis is back under control at some point in the…