Last week a UN meeting on results based finance for REDD took place in Bonn, Germany. “Workshop on results-based finance for the full implementation of the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70”, to give it its full title. The aim of the UN work programme on REDD finance is to “contribute to the…
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Ecuador plans to drill for oil in the Yasuní National Park
Ecuador has abandoned its plans to leave the oil where it belongs under the Yasuní National Park. Ecuador was asking for US$3.6 billion, or half the market value of the 850 million barrels of oil in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) oil field below Yasuní. Last week, Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa cancelled the plan and announced that…
Friends of the Earth calls for an open review of the Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership
Friends of the Earth Australia has written to the Australian Government calling for “an open review of its failed experiment in climate aid in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia”. The Australian-funded Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership was quietly shelved earlier this year.
INTERPOL: Intangible carbon markets at risk from criminal networks
A new report from INTERPOL warns that carbon markets are at risk for exploitation by criminal networks.
“Steve Zwick should withdraw his analysis and apologize,” Greenomics Indonesia responds to Ecosystem Marketplace’s Rimba Raya article
A couple of weeks ago, REDD-Monitor wrote about about a Greenomics Indonesia report that questioned whether the Rimba Raya REDD project in Indonesia has the necessary approvals from the government of Indonesia.