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Carbon offsets are a license to pollute

Carbon offsets are a license to pollute

Posted on 18 February 202218 February 2022

By Chris Lang During the COP26 UN climate meeting in Glasgow, Greta Thunberg tweeted out a “Greenwash Alert”. She pointed out that the fossil fuel industry and the banks are “among the biggest climate villains”. Shell, BP, and Standard Chartered were in Glasgow “trying to scale up offseting and give polluters a free pass to…

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The Green Climate Fund may consider Nicaragua’s Bio-CLIMA REDD project at its next board meeting. “This project is not intended to stop deforestation, protect the climate, or strengthen the indigenous population,” Pro REGENWALD writes

Posted on 18 October 202030 June 2021

By Chris Lang The Nicaraguan government is in the process of applying for REDD funding from the Green Climate Fund. The project is titled, “Bio-CLIMA Nicaragua: Integrated climate action for reduced deforestation and strengthened resilience in the BOSAWÁS and Rio San Juan Biosphere Reserves.” The proposal could be presented to the Green Climate Fund board…

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Global Forest Coalition: “Has REDD been worth the money?”

Posted on 3 September 20203 September 2020

By Chris Lang REDD was launched at the UNFCCC level during COP11 in Montreal. Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica presented an 11-page proposal for REDD. That was back in 2005. This week, Global Forest Coalition launched a briefing that looks at the past 15 years of REDD, and asks whether REDD has been worth…

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REDD is “the most ineffective and iniquitous mechanism to mitigate climate change” says El Salvador’s Climate Change Round-Table in a letter to president elect, Nayib Bukele

Posted on 16 April 2019

Last week, the Climate Change Round-Table in El Salvador, a group of civil society organisations, handed over an open letter to the country’s president-elect Nayib Bukele. The letter is critical of the environmental and climate policies of the previous government, which focussed heavily on REDD.

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Chico Mendes 30 years on: Against the false solutions of green capitalism

Posted on 18 December 201821 December 2018

At 5.45 pm on 22 December 1988, Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper and trade union leader was assassinated in the doorway of his home in Xapuri, Acre. Two meetings in Xapuri this month show that Mendes legacy is disputed.

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