In August 2014, after a series of articles in the Guyanese media about Chinese company Bai Shan Lin’s logging operations, a Guyanese PhD student wrote to the Norwegian government with a simple question: Is the Low Carbon Development Strategy just a sham?
Tag: Financing REDD
Corruption and REDD in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Corruption and REDD: A recent U4 report documents the extent of corruption in REDD implementation in DRC.
Indonesia: Good news and bad news on deforestation
First the good news: Indonesia’s rate of deforestation slowed in 2013. And the bad news: It’s likely to go back up unless the government does a U-turn on the country’s expanding palm oil production.
Norway’s climate pollution: Oil, gas, coal, and carbon trading
A recent article in Bloomberg looks at how Norway is planning to continue its greenhouse gas emissions. “Norway is wagering it will be easier to cut carbon emissions overseas than at home,” writes Bloomberg journalist Mathew Carr.
The Nature Conservancy and the World Bank acknowledge some of the hard realities of REDD
A new report from the Nature Conservancy and the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility looks at jurisdictional REDD. The report looks at eight REDD jurisdictional initiatives, “including a critical look at the success and challenges to date”.