In March 2012, Indonesian NGOs wrote to the Joint Forest Investment Program Team to protest at the poor consultation process and demanded that the process of preparing the Forest Investment Plan is postponed until their were met.
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REDD in Honduras: Still no agreement between Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Hondurans and the government
On 8 February 2012, the Indigenous Peoples Confederation of Honduras (CONPAH) wrote a letter to the State Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment, about the lack of consultation relating to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in Honduras. Six months later, the problems have still not been resolved.
New report on REDD-plus schemes in El Salvador
Civil Society Organisations and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations have written several letters about the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility process in El Salvador. Recently, researchers Yvette Aguilar, Maritza Erazo and Francisco Soto wrote a summary of the issues raised by REDD schemes in El Salvador.
Indigenous Peoples in El Salvador reject the World Bank’s FCPF
On 23 May 2012, the Salvadoran National Indigenous Coordinating Council (CCNIS) wrote to Benoît Bosquet, coordinator of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). The letter demands the rejection of the Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) submitted by El Salvador’s Environment Ministry.
The World Bank’s spin on carbon markets
“The total value of the carbon market grew by 11 percent in 2011, to $176 billion”, the World Bank announced this week. The occasion was the launch of the Bank’s “State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2012”. But as Oscar Reyes notes, the carbon market growth is “more spin than substance”.