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?
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Implement in haste, repent at leisure: Critical new report on the World Bank’s Carbon Fund by FERN and Forest Peoples Programme
“Unless major changes are made in FCPF planning, design and validation of emissions reduction programmes to ensure alignment with the FCPF Charter and international human rights standards, the FCPF Carbon Fund risks enabling seriously flawed REDD pilots that could generate negative impacts on indigenous peoples and local communities as the FCPF moves towards implementation of…
Bruce Rich on the World Bank’s response to climate change: 2. The REDD+ programme is “in denial about the intractable challenge of governance”
In his book “Foreclosing the Future”, Bruce Rich notes that one of the lessons of 20 years of the World Bank is “governance first”. Even the best designed projects will fail in the absence of proper institutional and legal capacity.
Bruce Rich on the World Bank’s response to climate change: 1. The Carbon Caravan
Bruce Rich’s excellent new book about the World Bank, features two chapters about the Bank’s role in climate and energy finance. Rich describes this as “arguably the most critical and intractable development issue facing the Bank and the world at large as global warming accelerates”.
Guest Post: “Welcome to the machine.” A guide to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s Carbon Fund
Anja Bursche has worked as an environmental governance consultant for German Development Cooperation, focusing on the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility from 2011 to 2013. The views and opinions expressed in the guest post are her own and do not reflect the views of the German government.