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Tag: The Nature Conservancy

Controversial deal between US-based conservation NGOs and polluting industry slammed

Posted on 28 May 200927 April 2021

Last week, an organisation called Avoided Deforestation Partners launched what they blandly describe as “an agreement on policies aimed at protecting the world’s tropical forests”. Under this agreement, “companies would be eligible to receive credit for reducing climate pollution by financing conservation of tropical forests”. It is a loophole allowing industry to write a cheque…

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Day two in Poznan: Woods Hole Research Center’s techno blitz and fuzzy data

Posted on 2 December 200814 November 2012

This afternoon, the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) held a side event at the climate conference in Poznan titled “How REDD policy options interact with forest measuring and monitoring”. Not surpringly, since Wood Hole is, as the name suggests, a research centre, the presentations tended to be extremely technical.

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Nature Conservancy role in World Bank REDD initiative highlights growing US NGO isolation on forests and climate policy

Posted on 27 October 200813 April 2018

The appointment of The Nature Conservancy to the governing board of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) highlights the growing distance on climate policy between a small number of mostly US-based conservationist organisations and the mainstream of environmental, indigenous and progressive green groups worldwide, and will also serve to undermine recent claims by the…

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