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- How climate change has got Worldwide Fund for Nature bamboozled May 7, 2012Christopher Booker (Telegraph) 7:00PM BST 05 May 2012 WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species. What a strange body the WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund, now the Worldwide Fund for Nature) has become these days. It is the largest, richest and most influential environmental lobbying organisation in the world. Origina […]
- U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru's Amazon rainforest May 1, 2012The next time you buy wood, you may want to make sure it's not from Peru. According to an in-depth new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), the illegal logging trade is booming in the Peruvian Amazon and much of the wood is being exported to the U.S. Following the labyrinthian trail of illegal logging from the devastated forests of th […]
- NGOs demand that Forest Investment Program in Indonesia is postponed until demands are met April 11, 2012On 8 March 2012, the World Bank announced that the Draft Indonesia Forest Investment Plan was posted on the Ministry of Forestry’s website. The 114-page document was posted in English, with a comment period of “a little over two weeks”. An Indonesian version has now been produced and is available on the Ministry of Forestry website. But the commenting proces […]
- Nature: the inconvenient truth of carbon offsets April 5, 2012The organizers of the Planet Under Pressure conference in London said that the event would be “as close to carbon neutral as possible”. There are good ways to achieve this noble goal: virtual engagement such as video conferencing, advice on lower-carbon travel options, and innovative registration tariffs to reward lower-carbon involvement. But, instead, the […]
- Two more reasons why REDD as a carbon trading mechanism makes no sense April 5, 2012Carbon prices in Europe have crashed. Again. The most recent fall is a result of falling greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. In 2011, emissions fell by 2.45%. When the European Commission announced the reduction in emissions, the EU carbon price fell by 14%. […]
- Norway: spending far more on rainforest destruction than rainforest protection April 2, 2012The Norwegian government keeps increasing its investments in industries widely known to be key forces behind rainforest destruction. At the same time as spending an annual 500 million USD and huge political capital on rainforest protection, Norway invests some 13,7 billion dollars in industries destroying it. Through its Pension Fund (Government Pension Fund […]
- Brazil: Munduruku chief clarifies REDD contract farse with Celestial Green Ventures March 28, 2012It created waves of headlines around the world when the Munduruku, an indigenous nation of approximately 13000 living in the state Para, Brazil, signed a carbon credit sales contract (REDD) with Celestial Green Ventures. […]
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- Please note a Spanish press release is forthcoming – Press Release – For Immediate Release International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) Indigenous Groups Announce Grave Concern on Possible Cancun Outcome December 10, 2010 (Cancun) – As the 16th UN Climate Change Conference winds down, Indigenous Peoples in attendance from around the world [...]
Read more...(AP) – 10/12/2010 CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Pedro Chuc May climbs a big zapote tree, braces himself against the trunk with a rope sling and uses his sharp machete to slash v-shaped cuts in the rough bark to let the tree’s resin — the base for natural chewing gum — flow into a cut-off soda [...]
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Marea E. Hatziolos Sun, 12/05/2010 The delegates and observers at the COP16 in Cancun are getting an earful about Blue Carbon—shorthand for atmospheric carbon sequestered in the earth’s coastal and nearshore environments. Oceans Day at Cancun will feature a session on Blue Carbon, and briefs, and blogs by ocean advocates are circulating on the net [...]
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Because developed countries need a token ‘win’ at the climate talks, Cancún will approve a ruinous forest protection scam Simon Counsell guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 December 2010 Finding an answer to deforestation is one of the main hopes for the Cancún summit, but the Redd scheme is fatally flawed, argues Simon Counsell. Photograph: Dimas Ardian/Getty Images [...]
Read more...Laura Carlsen December 9, 2010 The UN Climate Conference (COP16) in Cancun is turning out to be both anti-climactic and anti-climatic. There will be no major agreement to stop global warming this week, despite the timed release of a number of reports that show that the phenomenon is advancing more rapidly than expected, with lethal [...]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)[1] is a set of steps designed to use market/financial incentives in order to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation. Its original objective is to reduce green house gases but it can deliver “co-benefits” such as biodiversity conservation [...]
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