Four years ago, Simon Counsell, the director of the Rainforest Foundation UK, was quoted in the Observer as saying that “REDD needs to be taken out of the hands of the World Bank”.
Tag: World Bank
The World Bank’s inability to see deforestation in Peru
Earlier this month, more than 100 people flew to Peru to take part in a meeting in the Hilton Hotel in Lima. While they were there, “they demonstrated that innovative climate finance models can help protect forests and mitigate global climate change”.
Welcome to the green charade: BP’s US$5 million support of the World Bank’s Carbon Fund
“How bad does a company have to be before an arts organisation refuses to be associated with it or take its money?” This question was posed recently by Platform, a UK-based organisation that campaigns (amongst other things) against art sponsorship by oil companies.
“Carbon Fund Participants note their current willingness to pay up to US$5/t CO2e”
Yesterday, I wrote about a discussion in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility about the price of REDD credits and how much the Carbon Fund was prepared to pay.
Putting a price on forest carbon: How much will the World Bank’s Carbon Fund pay for REDD carbon credits?
There’s an interesting discussion taking place in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility about the price of carbon: How much will the Carbon Fund pay for REDD carbon credits?