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Liberian NGOs urge President Boakai to delay signing Carbon Development Policy
Meanwhile the African Development Bank is reportedly making a portion of its funding conditional on Liberia approving the carbon trading policy.
 • Chris Lang
Green oil? Suriname is planning to use Indigenous Peoples’ forests to greenwash TotalEnergies’ oil extraction
Indigenous Peoples’ organisations demand the REDD deal be stopped immediately.
 • Chris Lang
Suriname: Real oil and fake offsets
“A sign of how threadbare our systems for calculating carbon footprints are becoming.”
 • Chris Lang
A question for the Coalition for Rainforest Nations: “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam…
Yesterday, REDD-Monitor looked at a White Paper put out by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) criticising the Coalition for…
 • Chris Lang
A question for the International Emissions Trading Association: “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest…
An interesting discussion is taking place in the REDD world between proponents of voluntary carbon markets and proponents of what they call “sovereign…
 • 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…
 • Chris Lang
Rainforest Foundation UK: “Gabon's rainforest carbon credits set a dangerous precedent that could worsen climate change”
Rainforest Foundation UK warns that Gabon’s 90 million carbon credits are “likely worthless”.
 • Chris Lang
“Gabon is well on the way to fulfil all requirements to become eligible to obtain and receive payments for results-based REDD+ actions…
Gabon plans to issue 90 million REDD credits before COP27. REDD-Monitor asked the UNFCCC Secretariat some questions about how these credits are…
 • Chris Lang
Gabon plans the world’s biggest ever issue of carbon credits. By logging its forests
Last week, Gabon’s Forestry Minister, Lee White, announced that Gabon aims to create 187 million carbon credits, 90 million of which would be sold on…
 • Chris Lang
Papua New Guinea declares a moratorium on voluntary REDD projects
On 2 March 2022, Wera Mori, Papua New Guinea’s Minister of Environment, Conservation and Climate Change issued a “Moratorium on PNG REDD+ Voluntary…
 • Chris Lang
Kevin Conrad signs REDD deal with Papua New Guinea
Kevin Conrad, the Executive Director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, was back in Papua New Guinea earlier this month.
 • Chris Lang
Papua New Guinea not ready for REDD – Greenpeace
Yesterday, Greenpeace presented the Papua New Guinea government with a Golden Chainsaw award “for asking for REDD money whilst continuing with rampant…
 • Chris Lang
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