REDD deal with Norway: The MoU with Indonesia includes sweeping confidentiality clauses and excludes Indigenous Peoples, independent researchers, and civil society.
Tag: Financing REDD
Invictus Energy uses REDD to greenwash gas extraction in Zimbabwe
Invictus Energy announces that its new gas extraction in Zimbabwe will be greenwashed carbon neutral, thanks to the Ngamo-Gwayi-Sikumi REDD project.
How to burn the planet. Shell invests US$38 million in Carbonext, Brazil’s biggest REDD offset firm
Shell has invested US$38 million in Brazil’s largest REDD offsetting company Carbonext.
Gabon plans the world’s biggest ever issue of carbon credits. By logging its forests
Gabon plans to create187 million carbon credits. The plan is bad for the climate, bad for the forests, and bad for the people living in Gabon’s forests.
Carbonballs: Canadian carbon offsetting company Carbon Neutral Royalty appoints two “strategic advisers”. They are Erik Solheim, disgraced ex-head of UNEP; and John Mitnick, previously with the climate denying Heritage Foundation
Carbon Neutral Royalty: An offset streaming company run by mining financiers, advised by Erik Solheim and John Mitnick.