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Crooked Carbon Business: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, Guyana
Far from solving the problems of REDD projects, jurisdictional REDD magnifies the problems.
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Chris Lang
The LEAF Coalition’s REDD deal in Pará faces a lawsuit and opposition from Indigenous and Quilombola communities
The state of Pará is carrying out a consultation process six months after signing the deal.
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Chris Lang
Guyana’s Amerindian Peoples Association at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: “We were not properly consulted on how our forests…
The Petrostate of Guyana does not respect the right to free, prior and informed consent.
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Chris Lang
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approves three REDD methodologies. Risk of millions of credits that are “non-additional…
The Oeko-Institute has withdrawn from the ICVCM. Two members of the Expert Panel have resigned.
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Chris Lang
Gabriel Labbate’s carbon market fallacies
The Global Team Leader of the UN-REDD programme at UNEP is promoting a false solution to the climate crisis.
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Chris Lang
US$180 million worth of carbon credits for sale to Big Polluters from the state of Pará, Brazil
Prices are backed by the governments of Norway, UK, and US.
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Chris Lang
Amerindian Peoples Association highlights concerns about REDD in Guyana: “What looks good on paper isn’t always good in practice”
Selling carbon credits to an oil company, “raises contradictions within Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy”.
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Chris Lang
Tullow Oil signs US$90 million REDD deal with Ghana
Another Big Polluter is funding REDD in order to legitimise continued extraction of fossil fuels.
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Chris Lang
Amerindian Peoples Association forced to pull out of Architecture for REDD+ Transactions carbon credit appeal process
ART's complaint mechanism is not fair, independent, or transparent.
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Chris Lang
“The sale by the Government of Guyana of forest-based carbon credits was fraudulent”
Janette Bulkan of the University of British Columbia writes that the government had no authority to sell REDD credits from titled village lands without…
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Chris Lang
Amerindian Peoples Association files a formal complaint with Winrock International about the Guyana government’s US$750 million carbon…
In December 2022, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali announced that the US-based oil company Hess Corporation would buy US$750 million worth of carbon…
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Chris Lang
Guyana’s carbon credits are based on “emissions reductions that never occurred” says Kevin Conrad of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations
According to Kevin Conrad, the inspiration for REDD came from a 2003 conversation on a beach in Wewak that he had with Michael Somare, Papua New…
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Chris Lang
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