“It would be better if we’d never heard of SPVS in this region,” says a farmer in Guaraqueçaba in southeastern Brazil, referring to Brazilian NGO Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem e Educacao Ambiemental. SPVS is the local organisation that The Nature Conservancy hired to run its carbon project.
Tag: REDD and rights
Thailand: “Stop prosecuting land reform activists”
Last week, activists delivered a letter to Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, urging her to “stop prosecuting Thai citizens who are engaged in public campaigns for agrarian reform, and to give urgent priority to redistributive land reforms and equitable resolution of the land conflicts”.
“This project has been a total failure,” says Australian Senator Christine Milne about the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership
When it was launched in 2007, Australia’s Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership was going to be “practical climate change action that could deliver immediate and tangible benefits”. But five years later, the project has little more to show for the A$30 million spent than 50,000 tree seedlings planted.* That’s 0.05% of the target of 100 million…
Forest tenure rights and REDD: Most laws in Asia and Africa, “meaningless or unenforced”
Land rights are crucial to REDD. This week, the Rights and Resources Initiative released a study that found an increase in community land rights in tropical forests, but at the same time most land laws in Asia and Africa remain “either meaningless or unenforced”.
Critical views of California’s carbon offsets from the USA and Mexico
Two views of California’s new cap and trade programme, both looking at problematic forestry offsets. The first looks into carbon offsets from forestry operations in California. The second looks at the impact of REDD-type projects in Chiapas, Mexico.