By Chris Lang Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about Kanaka Management Services’ REDD project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The post featured a letter from a group of NGOs working in the country to Eva Bazaiba, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development. The letter requests Bazaiba’s immediate intervention…
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REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru: “They don’t count deforestation when they don’t want to. And, this is cheating”
REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions: A review by Elias Ayrey, remote sensing scientist, reveals major flaws in the methodology.
Verra’s response to REDD-Monitor’s questions about Toucan’s transferring of retired carbon offsets to the blockchain: “An entity that retires a VCU and then creates a token is not, strictly speaking, tokenizing a VCU, but is instead creating an instrument that exists outside of Verra’s ecosystem”
Verra’s response to REDD-Monitor’s questions reveal little about Toucan, offsets, and blockchain, except that Verra is, legally speaking, carefully covering its arse.
Carbon cowboys and cattle ranches: Kanaka Management Services’ proposed REDD+ Project in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea
Kanaka Management Services is the project developer behind a proposed REDD. The project document posted on Verra’s website is disturbingly poor quality.
Verified hot air: how a popular carbon offset project in Peru has taken tens of millions of dollars from hundreds of companies and individuals but done nothing to prevent climate change
Verified hot air: The REDD Project in Brazil Nut concessions in Madre de Dios has sold nearly 10 million carbon credits. But it has not reduced deforestation.