Wildlife Alliance has responded to the France24 documentary - https://archive.ph/h88n4. Wildlife Alliance has nothing to say about the deforestation associated with hydropower construction in and around the REDD project. Instead it accused France24 of presenting, "a distorted and misleading narrative about the impact of REDD+ projects on deforestation and the land access of indigenous communities". Neither is there any mention of the Chong community members who have lost their livelihoods as a result of the REDD project.
That’s an important point: “Boeing procures carbon offsets through a globally recognized agency.”
When you buy a carbon offset, you are buying an indulgence to assuage the guilt from your emissions, since in no way are you going to actually even think of reducing your actual emissions. Therefore it is essential that there be this extra layer in the offsets market that “shamewashes” (or make up some better name) the carbon offset so that no guilt over the cruel imposition of these fortress-conservation projects carries forward onto the end-purchaser. And regarding the logging, no “underdeveloped” nation is going to forego any revenue source available to earn foreign exchange while they are under the burden of foreign debt - they will find a way to shamewash the forest product sales as well.
Wildlife Alliance has responded to the France24 documentary - https://archive.ph/h88n4. Wildlife Alliance has nothing to say about the deforestation associated with hydropower construction in and around the REDD project. Instead it accused France24 of presenting, "a distorted and misleading narrative about the impact of REDD+ projects on deforestation and the land access of indigenous communities". Neither is there any mention of the Chong community members who have lost their livelihoods as a result of the REDD project.
That’s an important point: “Boeing procures carbon offsets through a globally recognized agency.”
When you buy a carbon offset, you are buying an indulgence to assuage the guilt from your emissions, since in no way are you going to actually even think of reducing your actual emissions. Therefore it is essential that there be this extra layer in the offsets market that “shamewashes” (or make up some better name) the carbon offset so that no guilt over the cruel imposition of these fortress-conservation projects carries forward onto the end-purchaser. And regarding the logging, no “underdeveloped” nation is going to forego any revenue source available to earn foreign exchange while they are under the burden of foreign debt - they will find a way to shamewash the forest product sales as well.