In a letter to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, the Thai Climate Justice Working Group rejects the latest draft of Thailand’s Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP).
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Climate change at the World Bank: “You can imagine a future world where carbon is really the currency of the 21st century”
Earlier this week, Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank and Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund spoke about climate change. This was the first time that the two have spoken together in public about climate change.
Can REDD stop the land grabbing crisis in Laos and Cambodia?
This week, Global Witness released a new report investigating a land grabbing crisis in Laos and Cambodia. The report looks at two Vietnamese “rubber baron” companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG). Global Witness found that these companies “have leased vast tracts of land for plantations in Laos and Cambodia,…
“Concerns grow over weak safeguard implementation,” Forest Peoples Programme on REDD and safeguards
Forest Peoples Programme’s April 2013 E-Newsletter focusses on safeguards. The E-Newsletter starts by looking at why safeguards matter. Other articles explain and comment on the World Bank’s safeguards review, forest policy and oil palm policy, the failure of safeguards in the Camisea gas project in Peru and examples from the Congo Basin and Cameroon.
Guest Post: Is it still possible to rectify the negative impact of REDD-plus? A view from Central America
Despite the criticisms of El Salvador’s REDD readiness process, the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has accepted El Salvador’s Readiness Preparation Plan. Nevertheless, groups and activists in El Salvador continue to question the process.