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REDD in Guyana: Elite agendas, political temporalities, and the politics of environmental policy failure

Posted on 10 October 201923 November 2019

In 2009, Norway launched Guyana’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation programme. Back then, it was an amibitious US$250 million scheme. Ten years later Guyana’s REDD has been almost completely abandoned.

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REDD funded by the oil industry cannot be “sustainable development”. Norwegian oil company Equinor continues its climate masquerade

Posted on 6 February 201916 March 2019

As climate breakdown gets worse, the corporations most responsible are looking for ways to continue profiting from ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Norway’s oil company Equinor is a classic example of this. The company plans to continue drilling oil – including in the Arctic – while investing in “natural climate solutions” to offset its emissions.

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Norway’s support for REDD: The new colonialism and the failure of democracy

Posted on 8 January 2019

Norway is the world’s fifth largest oil exporter. As a result, Norway is a very rich country. At the same time, Norway cares about addressing climate change. Or, to be more honest, it wants to appear on the world stage as caring about climate change.

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Norwegian funded study exposes the myth of sustainable forest management

Posted on 30 January 2018

In 2007, sustainable forest management was written into the definition of REDD in the Bali Action Plan. Ten years later, the main funder of REDD, the Norwegian government, has commissioned a review of sustainable forest management.

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Wood-smoke and mirrors: How the Center for Global Development’s pseudo-science is used to promote Norway’s REDD myth

Posted on 7 March 2017

In September 2016, Jonah Busch of the Center for Global Development wrote a blog post about the aviation industry’s crazy proposals to “address” climate change by offsetting its ever increasing emissions. Busch is in favour of using REDD credits to offset pollution from flying.

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