Last week, the New York Times published an article that argues that, “The science says that spending precious dollars for climate change mitigation on forestry is high-risk”. It is written by Nadine Unger, an assistant professor of atmospheric chemistry at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.
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Guest Post: The “New York Declaration” on forests – a smokescreen for Norway’s oil industry?
Earlier this week, REDD-Monitor wrote about a project called “Creating demand for REDD+”. The three-year project is funded to the tune of US$5 million by Norway and is run by two Washington-based think tanks, the Center for Global Development and Climate Advisers.
Oil and REDD: Norway pays Center for Global Development to promote REDD in Washington
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”.
The Margarita Declaration on Climate Change: “We reject the implementation of false solutions to climate change, such as: carbon markets and other forms of privatization and commodification of life”
In July 2014, about 130 social and environmental groups spent four days in a meeting on Margarita Island in Venezuela discussing climate change. At the end of the meeting, they produced the “Margarita Declaration on Climate Change”.
“Our world is at a turning point”, says CIFOR’s Peter Holmgren. Yeah right.
“Our world is at a turning point”, said Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Centre for International Forestry Research, in his opening address at the Forest Asia Summit earlier this month.