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…
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Response from Kanaka Management Services: “Please do not conduct legal trail or castigate REDD+ project developers on the website by writing text which shows the project developer in bad light”
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…
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.