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What came out of Copenhagen on REDD?

US sabotages negotiations on draft REDD text

The draft REDD text: targets gone, safeguards fading

Indonesia’s climate promises and policy incoherence

Two new reports highlight the problems with REDD in the Congo Basin

Leaked “Danish Text” on REDD

Painting Copenhagen REDD (or perhaps not)

REDD side events at Copenhagen

Two films on REDD in Indonesia by LifeMosaic

Copenhagen is coming

“Wild Money”: corruption, illegal logging and carbon offsets in Indonesia

“Forests in exhaustion”: a guide

New report exposes Australia’s REDD offsets scam

Save the People and Forests of Papua

Guyana could be paid for increasing deforestation: Jagdeo

Ogiek threatened with eviction from Mau Forest, Kenya

What would a 4°C warmer world mean for the Amazon rainforest?

Why did Conservation International invite Thomas Friedman to go to Brazil?

REDD discussions in Barcelona

Accra Caucus warns of REDD greenwash in Copenhagen

Injustice on the carbon frontier in Guaraqueçaba, Brazil

20% of CO₂ emissions from deforestation? Make that 12%

Indonesia: Communities reject APRIL’s REDD plans on the Kampar Peninsular

350 reasons why carbon trading won’t work

Carbon scam: the Noel Kempff project in Bolivia

World Forestry Congress or World Fraud Congress?

Brazilian social and environmental movements reject carbon trading

Harapan Rainforest Project – a response from RSPB

How a forestry offset project in Guatemala allowed emissions in the USA to increase

REDD discussions in Bangkok

REDD concerns deepen in Indonesia

Will REDD protect forests, or allow business as usual to continue?

More (bad) news from Papua New Guinea

How Vietnam exports deforestation: Interview with Patrick Meyfroidt

Colombian government warned a year ago against “Oxygen buyers”

The Corner House on Carbon Trading

Do economics, ecosystems and biodiversity mix?

Carbon Regulatory Offset Committee launched

More questions than answers on carbon trading in PNG

REDD will fail with the current definition of “forest”

PNG government does not support Voluntary Carbon Agreements

Indonesia: Sinar Resmi Declaration on climate change and REDD

“Nobody cares about the poor people”: new film about the Harapan Rainforest project

Carbon in the forests of Guyana: Janette Bulkan

Plantations as sinks: the carbon fraud at its worst

UN-REDD Programme Policy Board calls for nominations for civil society representatives

Climate negotiations drowning in a sea of brackets: Forest protection missing

Will the World Bank ever learn? IFC violates its own standards in palm oil sector in Indonesia

Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador reject REDD

Can REDD stop Asia Pulp and Paper’s forest destruction?

Carbon Planet’s Dave Sag on carbon trading in PNG

Our Climate Crisis: Seeing REDD, Plundering Our Forests

More on PNG’s “carbon cowboys”

Bonn II: REDD discussions at the June 2009 UNFCCC climate meeting

The World Bank’s Forest Investment Programme – the story so far

Obstacles on the UK’s “Road to Copenhagen”

Marcus Colchester on “Safeguarding Rights in the FCPF”

G8’s hot air on climate and REDD

Kevin Conrad on REDD, irregularities and carbon cowboys in PNG

Papua New Guinea Australia Forest Carbon Partnership: 10 questions for Penny Wong

PNG update: Yasause suspended, dodgy carbon credits and carbon ripoffs

World Bank bulldozes ahead with REDD in Guyana and Panama

“CDM has no validity”, says leading UK climate scientist

Vested Interests: Industrial logging and carbon in tropical forests

Offsetting: A dangerous distraction

UN-REDD and Operational Guidance: Engagement of Indigenous Peoples

Does Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy stand up?

Halt climate change. Halt forest destruction. Halt plantations

Civil society condemns massacre of Indigenous People in Peru

Indigenous Peoples on REDD: “REDD is only made for corporations”

Anatomy of a deal: The April Salome REDD project in Papua New Guinea

Forests, corruption and cars: Why REDD has to be about more than carbon

The Nature Conservancy: Forest offsets more important than emissions reduction targets

Indonesian NGOs call for transparency, consultation and rights in REDD plans

Harapan Rainforest project in Indonesia “exposes cracks in UN climate plans”

REDD side events in Bonn, June 2009

Controversial deal between US-based conservation NGOs and polluting industry slammed

IIED report on Tenure in REDD: Theory 1, Reality 7

How the World Bank explains REDD to Indigenous Peoples

Stephen Corry: Global scramble on climate change threatens Indigenous rights

Australia caught REDD handed

Indigenous Peoples reject carbon trading and forest offsets

Environmental Groups Urge Waxman/Markey to Close the Floodgate on Carbon Offsets

Offsets under the Waxman-Markey Bill would mean no cuts till 2026

When will the multi-stakeholder process for Guyana’s forests begin?

World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility is going ahead “without significant participation by indigenous peoples or civil society”

REDD: CO₂lonialism of Forests

Rainforest Foundation UK and Greenpeace comment on Forest Investment Program draft

“Subprime Carbon?”: New Friends of the Earth report

Yvo de Boer on carbon markets and REDD

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on Indigenous Peoples and carbon trading

Why Brazil is interested in “forests in exhaustion”

Urging recognition of Forest Peoples’ Rights

New Greenpeace report: Trading in forest carbon would crash carbon markets

World Bank invites comments on Forest Investment Program design

“Cogiendo atajos”: FERN/FPP report available in Spanish

REDD is an “anti-solution” says Rising Tide North America

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and REDD: new briefing from Forest Peoples Programme

World Resources Institute review of World Bank-approved R-PINs finds critical issues are “conspicuously missing”

Indonesian language climate change compilation by Down to Earth

FCPF’s “poster child” would reward forest destroyers in Indonesia

Is PNG’s Office of Climate Change and Carbon Trading illegal?

“Honest engagement”: The need for transparency and civil society participation in REDD

Drivers for REDD in Guyana

Guyana’s President Jagdeo launches “avoided threatened deforestation” scheme

Eliasch “not impressive” in front of environmental audit committee

Brazil’s National Plan on Climate Change and the Amazon Fund: “This plan does not create any carbon credits or right to emissions”

Community Forests and REDD in Indonesia

Forests in a Changing Climate – New Friends of the Earth International report

Why is Brazil so interested in carbon credits for “forests in exhaustion”?

“The REDD train is going pretty fast and it’s left us at the station”: Interview with Tom B.K. Goldtooth

FERN-Forest Peoples Programme Special report on Poznan

Forest offsets remain excluded from ETS – for now

“Even at a conceptual stage indigenous peoples should be involved”: Interview with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

REDD text is “insufficient and offensive”: Closing Statement of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change

International Human Rights Day 2008: A sad day for Indigenous Peoples

Notes from Forest Day 2, Poznan