A new Greenpeace reports looks at corporate plans for Carbon Dioxide Removal – and includes a look at the experiences of forest sinks and carbon markets.
Tag: REDD
Oil, climate change, and Patricia Espinosa’s short memory
Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, was in Weimar, Germany this week. In her first speech since COP 24, she said that the UN climate meeting in Katowice reached an “extremely successful outcome”. Of course Espinosa doesn’t mean that the meeting was successful in addressing climate change. She just means that it was successful…
Madagascar: What happens to REDD when there’s a sapphire rush?
The Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor “has long been regarded as one of Madagascar’s top conservation priorities,” Conservation International tells us on its website. Conservation International is running a REDD project there covering more than 371,000 hectares.
Australia shuts down the Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership: “A lot of funds spent and very little progress”
Australia has quietly shelved its Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership project. The US$43 million project will be closed before most of the project’s targets have been met.