Gabon plans to issue 90 million REDD credits before COP27. REDD-Monitor asked the UNFCCC Secretariat some questions about how these credits are generated.
Tag: Logging

The Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: FSC blocks and suspends logging company Maderyja. The REDD project (which consists of two logging concessions and overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation) is still selling carbon offsets
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: One of the logging companies has lost its FSC certificate. The concession also overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation.

The Central African Forest Initiative is promoting industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The agreement between the Central African Forest Initiative and D.R. Congo could result in millions of hectares of logging concessions.

More than 40 NGOs join call to stop the lifting of the logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo is planning to lift its logging moratorium. More than 40 human rights and environmental NGOs have written to donor governments asking them to intervene.

NGOs warn of “an impending climate and biodiversity catastrophe” if the Democratic Republic of Congo lifts its logging moratorium
NGOs warn that if the DRC government follows through with its plans to lift the country’s logging moratorium it would result in a climate and biodiversity catastrophe.