By Chris Lang I wrote this post in June 2018, for iz3w (Informationszentrum 3. welt), an organisation based in Freiburg, Germany. A German translation of an edited version is published in the May/June 2019 issue titled, “Klimawandel” (Climate change). The following is the unedited version.
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Recent academic review describes REDD readiness in Indonesia as a “failure”
“The REDD+ readiness phase leading up to implementation has been slow and has fallen short of expectations.”
The lost REDD decade. Highlighted by counterfactual baseline nonsense in the Democratic Republic of Congo
“The technology is well known and has been available for thousands of years. Everybody knows how not to cut down a tree.” That spectacularly naive comment came from Norway’s then-prime minister Jens Stoltenberg in December 2007 at the launch of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI).
Critical statement on REDD from Latin American indigenous organisations
Critical statement on REDD – from Latin American Indigenous Peoples organisations.
The shambles of the World Bank’s REDD negotiations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Chris Lang The World Bank and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo are coming to the end of negotiations about the country’s Emission Reductions Payment Agreement. While no official announcement has yet been made, REDD-Monitor understands that the Agreement was signed last week.