Sitemap - 2012 - REDD-Monitor

Interview with Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of Indonesia’s REDD+ Task Force: “We are starting a new programme, a new paradigm, a new concept, a new way of seeing things”

Clinton Foundation on London Carbon Credit Company: “This matter is a known fraud”

Judge in Peru issues warrant for carbon cowboy David Nilsson’s arrest

Are Clinton Foundation carbon credits on sale in this London carbon trading scam?

Down the rabbit hole: REDD in the CDM?

Controversy surrounding Australia’s Kalimantan Forest and Climate Partnership REDD project deepens

Indonesian court revokes oil palm concession in Tripa peat swamp

Rainforest Foundation Norway: “Why securing the rights of forest peoples is the right way to save the forest”

REDD in Honduras: Still no agreement between Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Hondurans and the government

REDD finance discussions at the UN climate talks in Bangkok

Greenomics Indonesia responds to REDD-Monitor interview with Scott Poynton, TFT

COONAPIP, Panama’s Indigenous Peoples Coordinating Body, denounces UN-REDD

Rainforest Roulette? – new briefing on REDD and markets from Rainforest Foundation UK

New report on REDD-plus schemes in El Salvador

Dams and logging in Sarawak: Can REDD stop the destruction?

Interview with Scott Poynton, TFT: “We help companies clean up their supply chains – that is the way we need to go to protect the world’s forests”

Swedish Society for Nature Conservation: “It is naïve and dangerous to think that REDD will be quick or easy”

Financing REDD: New report from CIRAD recommends “sustained investments”

Voting open for UN-REDD civil society observer

Worldwide Commodity Partners Limited – another carbon credit boiler room?

News from Guyana: Article by Janette Bulkan in the Commonwealth Forestry Association newsletter

Response from Envirotrade: “The Nhambita project . . . has not failed”

Carbon, crime and impunity in Indonesia’s plantation sector

California groups urge Governor to reject REDD carbon offsets

Envirotrade’s carbon trading project in Mozambique: “The N’hambita experiment has failed”

The Carbon Cowboy: David Nilsson on 60 Minutes Australia

If Indonesia’s President is serious about addressing deforestation, why is Tripa still ablaze?

“An inability to see the forests for the carbon?” FERN’s report from the Bonn climate meeting

The strange case of Brett Goldsworthy

Greenpeace starts global consultation on the need for universal REDD+ safeguards

Only 10% of global carbon emissions come from tropical deforestation

OPIC political risk insurance for the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia: Who benefits?

Indigenous Peoples Terra Livre Declaration at Rio +20 rejects REDD

Indigenous peoples insist on rights-based approaches and respect for traditional knowledge and practices in Rio +20 outcomes

Rio +20 has nothing to say on REDD (and not much on anything else)

Kari-Oca II Declaration: Indigenous Peoples at Rio +20 reject the Green Economy and REDD

NO REDD+! in RIO +20: A Declaration to Decolonize the Earth and the Sky

WWF on REDD financing: Asking forest nations to engage in a 30 year activity, “where the rewards beyond year 2 or 3 are completely unknown”

Guest Post: REDD and the green economy

As Indonesia’s president talks of “sustainable growth with equity”, Tripa continues to burn

“The story of REDD is just a lie,” says Ulu Masen villager

Rio +20: The Earth Summit debacle continued

Community voices on The Nature Conservancy’s Guaraqueçaba Climate Action Project: “We’re suffering here to help them over there”

Carvier Limited: “3 million units available!!” from Brazil – the ethical alternative to carbon credits?

Indigenous Peoples in El Salvador reject the World Bank’s FCPF

Thailand: “Stop prosecuting land reform activists”

“This project has been a total failure,” says Australian Senator Christine Milne about the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership

The World Bank’s spin on carbon markets

Disagreement on REDD finance during the “stalemate” climate negotiations in Bonn

WWF scandal (part 4): The dark side of the Panda

REDD discussions at the UN climate meeting in Bonn: “The only thing negotiators did here was produce more things to disagree on”

After one year, Indonesia’s forest moratorium isn’t working

What if forests started dying because of climate change? Oh wait… they already are

The atmosphere business

Critical views of California’s carbon offsets from the USA and Mexico

Corruption and REDD: “It is highly unlikely that we will find a country where forms of corruption linked to REDD+ are non-existent”

65 cents per hectare: The cost of land for oil palm plantations in West Papua

MIFEE: An agribusiness attack in West Papua

Indian Law Resource Center calls on UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples to improve World Bank safeguards policies

Social organisations in El Salvador critique the World Bank’s FCPF

“Through a glass darkly”: Six articles by Janette Bulkan about Vaitarna Holdings’ operations in Guyana

Indonesia: Destroying Tripa peat swamp forest is “an act of criminal vandalism”

Additional Guidance on REDD+ Safeguards Information Systems

Richard Sandor: Carbon trading, holy cows and sacred groves

WWF scandal (part 3): Embezzlement and evictions in Tanzania

Financial Services Authority: “Why you should be wary about investing in the carbon credit market”

Deforestation in Indonesia continues, despite the moratorium

Want to stop climate change? Stop eating meat

Green Resources’ carbon plantations in Tanzania. Curse or cure?

The Story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?

Forest tenure rights and REDD: Most laws in Asia and Africa, “meaningless or unenforced”

Response from Harapan Rainforest Project: “The SPI settlement is deep inside Harapan, on a scale large enough to compromise the ecological integrity of the forest”

REDD actors in Indonesia:‭ Ten interviews

Environmental activist Chut Wutty shot dead in Cambodia

News from Guyana: Two articles about Guyana by Janette Bulkan in the Commonwealth Forestry Association newsletter

Conservation International, illegal logging, and corruption in the Cardamoms, Cambodia

Not for Sale: The fantasy of carbon offsetting

Free, prior and informed consent? Not in Ecosystem Restoration Associates’ REDD project in DR Congo

Interview with Budhi Sayoko, Laksmi Banowati and Rogier Klaver, UN-REDD Indonesia: “REDD+ is quite a promising thing to tackle deforestation”

What the new World Bank President should do on REDD

Interview with Frank Momberg, Fauna and Flora International: “A community forestry REDD+ programme rolled out nationwide would have a large influence on reducing deforestation”

Can REDD save the Tripa peatswamp forest in Indonesia?

Interview with Bernadinus Steni, HuMa: “REDD should be a way of supporting and strengthening the tenure of local communities and indigenous peoples that manage forests sustainably”

Interview with Frances Seymour, CIFOR: “The Letter of Intent prompted a tectonic shift in the dialogue about forests”

Interview with Bustar Maitar and Yuyun Indradi, Greenpeace: “REDD is not answering the real problems of deforestation, yet”

NGOs demand that Forest Investment Program in Indonesia is postponed until demands are met

Cheap carbon and futurology: Two more reasons why REDD as a carbon trading mechanism makes no sense

Aceh court rejects court case against forest clearing in Tripa peatswamp

Norway and deforestation: “Offering its little finger to help, while using its fist to destroy”

Interview with Hasbi Berliani, Joko Waluyo and Avi Mahaningtyas, Kemitraan: “REDD is challenging, but we’re optimists”

Up in flames. Tripa peatswamp forest and Indonesia’s moratorium

A response from Charles Mauro about REDD credits from Mato Grosso: “The credits were withdrawn”

The Tripa peatswamp in Aceh is ablaze – despite the moratorium

Interview with Tejo Pramono, La Via Campesina, and Elisha Kartini, SPI: “REDD is just a project that the industrial countries use to try to keep their economic benefits”

SAFI: Forest Department and Merlins Wood process in Pakistan neither consultative nor transparent

Protest at appointment of ex-President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana as IUCN high level envoy for sustainable development in forest countries

For sale: 1.5 million “heavily discounted” vintage REDD credits from Mato Grosso, Brazil

Why Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry is reluctant to investigate APP’s illegal logging of ramin trees

Honduras: World Bank, REDD and the right to consultation of indigenous peoples – a response from OFRANEH

Celestial Green Ventures’ contracts are “not valid”, says Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI

Interview with Chip Fay and Steve Rhee, Climate Land Use Alliance: “It’s about land use rationalisation based on the recognition of rights of local communities”

Celestial Green Ventures: 20 million hectares of REDD carbon offset projects in Brazil

Interview with Teguh Surya, WALHI: “We are against REDD. We are against carbon trading”

A response from the World Bank’s Benoît Bosquet about consultation with Indigenous Peoples in Honduras

How forest cover and oil reserves match four countries’ positions on REDD

Greenpeace investigation shows that Asia Pulp and Paper is pulping tiger habitat

In the REDD: New report from Friends of the Earth International about the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership

World Bank’s FCPF fails to consult with Indigenous Peoples in Honduras

Will Germany insist on free, prior informed consent in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility?

Discriminatory Forestry Regulations and REDD projects in Indonesia

Interview with the World Bank in Indonesia: “REDD+ has opened a space for increased dialogue on difficult forest sector policy and tenure issues”

REDD under the spotlight – Can ‘Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ deliver real benefits for the climate and for rural communities?

A response from Surriekha Khan about Merlins Wood’s REDD projects in Pakistan

How Norway and the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate threaten peatland and forest in Papua

Merlins Wood’s mysterious REDD projects in Pakistan

“The rule of law? Not in the forest sector of Guyana”: Four articles by Janette Bulkan in the Stabroek News

Making the Forest Sector Transparent

WWF scandal (part 2): Corporate capture, commodities and carbon trading

Will REDD benefit Papua’s Indigenous Peoples?

Can REDD save the forests of Sarawak?

Turning Point: What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?

Understanding Community Based-REDD+: A Manual for Indigenous Communities

Indigenous communities in Peru condemn the further adventures of an Australian carbon cowboy

Finance for biodiversity is a “new face for capitalism”: Sign on letter to CBD from Acción Ecológica

Can REDD save the forests of Muara Tae in East Kalimantan, Indonesia?

New video: “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests”

Guest Post: Indonesia’s moratorium map fails to include data on settlements and smallholder farms

Conservation International turns a blind eye to illegal logging in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia

McKinsey’s bad influence on REDD is decreasing – at least in Papua New Guinea

Does anyone know what Tony Blair was doing in Central Kalimantan last year?