Gabon plans to issue 90 million REDD credits before COP27. REDD-Monitor asked the UNFCCC Secretariat some questions about how these credits are generated.
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Response from Steve Zwick, Verra: “Verra will ask Kanaka Management Systems to cease and desist any actions that may mislead communities into thinking that Verra has not already rejected the project”
By Chris Lang An Indian company called Kanaka Management Systems has plans to set up a REDD project covering an area of more than 72 million hectares in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In April 2022, NGOs working in DRC wrote to DRC’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development raising…
“In the wake of the pandemic the Peruvian Government has been rolling back its social and environmental protections”: Interview with Tom Younger, Forest Peoples Programme (part 3)
“In the wake of the pandemic the Peruvian Government has been really rolling back its social and environmental protections” – part 3 of REDD-Monitor’s interview with Tom Younger of Forest Peoples Programme.
“The Peruvian Government is resisting fulfilling its legal obligations to title Indigenous lands”: Interview with Tom Younger, Forest Peoples Programme (part 2)
“The Peruvian Government is resisting fulfilling its legal obligations to title Indigenous lands”: Interview with Tom Younger, Peru Programme Coordinator and Policy Advisor at Forest Peoples Programme.
Interview with Kate Heller, VCS Communications Manager, about April Salumei: “We cannot speak for the other ‘credits’ issued by the project”
In 2011, a Swiss company called World Markets AG bought five million “carbon benefit units”. They came from the April Salumei REDD project in Papua New Guinea. World Markets sold the “carbon benefit units” at a profit of over US$5 million.