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Saneamiento

How the Green Climate Fund is undermining Nicaraguan Indigenous and Afro-Descendant communities’ struggle for land and Saneamiento

Posted on 9 March 20219 March 2021

In November 2020, the Green Climate Fund approved a REDD project in Nicaragua that risks conflict, criminalisation and repression of critical voices.

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Mai Ndombe

REDD-Minus: New report reveals the reality of REDD in Mai Ndombe, Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted on 3 March 20213 March 2021

By Chris Lang A recent report by Action pour la Promotion et Protection des Peoples et Espèces Menacées (APEM) and Rainforest Foundation UK looks at the social impacts of two REDD projects in Mai Ndombe province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The report is based on grassroots research carried out over two years. The…

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Colombia

Coronavirus notes #7: How the Colombian government is rolling back social and environment safeguards during the pandemic

Posted on 24 February 202124 February 2021

By Chris Lang Last week, Forest Peoples Programme put out a series of reports looking at the following question: To what extent have government in the world’s five most forested tropical countries rolled back on social and environmental safeguards and what are the consequences of this for Indigenous Peoples and their territories?

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REDD in Cambodia

Sarah Milne on REDD in Cambodia: “Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders”

Posted on 29 December 202030 December 2020

REDD in Cambodia. Three things make Sarah Milne, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, uncomfortable about REDD credits: Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders.

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NIHT Inc

The return of the carbon cowboys: How NIHT Inc failed to get free, prior and informed consent for REDD in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Posted on 12 November 202017 November 2020

By Chris Lang A US-based company called NIHT Inc has big REDD plans for the provinces of New Ireland and East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. So far, the NIHT Topaiyo REDD+ Project covering an area of 10,443 hectares of forest, has been registered by Verra. The project is in the south of the…

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