The New York Times recently ran an article about Washington-based think tanks that have received tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments, “while pushing United States government officials to adopt policies that often reflect the donors’ priorities”.
Tag: Financing REDD
Greenpeace slams California’s REDD plans: The fallacy of forest ‘offsets’
“If protecting trees in Mexico so that companies can pollute more here sounds dubious, that’s because it is.” Amy Moas, Senior Forest Campaigner at Greenpeace, wrote these words in a recent op-ed published in the California newspaper, Capitol Weekly.
Welcome to the green charade: BP’s US$5 million support of the World Bank’s Carbon Fund
“How bad does a company have to be before an arts organisation refuses to be associated with it or take its money?” This question was posed recently by Platform, a UK-based organisation that campaigns (amongst other things) against art sponsorship by oil companies.
“Carbon Fund Participants note their current willingness to pay up to US$5/t CO2e”
Yesterday, I wrote about a discussion in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility about the price of REDD credits and how much the Carbon Fund was prepared to pay.
Putting a price on forest carbon: How much will the World Bank’s Carbon Fund pay for REDD carbon credits?
There’s an interesting discussion taking place in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility about the price of carbon: How much will the Carbon Fund pay for REDD carbon credits?