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Open letter: “The $700 billion for nature restoration is not based on scientific analysis”
Published in the Italian newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera.
Feb 26, 2025
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The US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap is a “bogus figure devised by US conservation corporations in collaboration with investment…
An unpublished letter to The Guardian.
Nov 12, 2024
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The biodiversity funding gap “is a dangerous way to approach debates about what is needed to transform societies to improve nature…
In an interview with Acción Ecológica, Andre Standing explains what’s wrong with the whole idea of a US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap.
Nov 4, 2024
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Chris Lang
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Biodiversity offsets and credits: “ecological impacts, land dispossession, loss of livelihoods and systematic violations of individual and…
A neoliberal market that commodifies nature and delays action on the loss of biodiversity globally. What’s not to like?
Oct 23, 2024
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REDD in Cancun, part 1: What happened to Bolivia’s text in the AWG-LCA?
So far, the REDD negotiations in the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) in Cancun seem to have little to do with either…
Dec 7, 2015
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Chris Lang
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On International Women’s Day: An invitation to sign the position on Women and REDD
With apologies for the delay, here’s a posting for International Women’s Day (8 March 2011).
Mar 11, 2011
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Chris Lang
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FERN report on REDD in Cancun: “increased risk that REDD activities will fuel conflict, undermine forest peoples’ rights and fail to reduce…
FERN has released its analysis of the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, COP 16, as part of the January 2011 issue of Forest Watch. A year ago, in its…
Jan 31, 2011
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Chris Lang
Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo caught lying in Cancun: “We have decided to protect our entire forest”
Guyana’s president, Bharrat Jagdeo, hit the headlines during COP16 for his “Show me the money,” speech at a side event organised by Avoided…
Jan 20, 2011
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Chris Lang
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One trillion tonnes of carbon, REDD, carbon trading and fortress conservation
In October 2009, Oxford University launched trillionthtonne.org – a website that tracks how fast we are approaching total global emissions of one…
Jan 11, 2011
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Chris Lang
How Kevin Conrad dismissed NGO requests not to weaken safeguards in the REDD text in Cancun
In a post just before Christmas, I mentioned that Kevin Conrad “was busy in Cancun on Papua New Guinea’s behalf watering down safeguards in the REDD…
Jan 5, 2011
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Chris Lang
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The Cancun agreement on REDD: Four questions and four answers
In Cancun, after two weeks of tense UN climate meetings, negotiators came up with a firm agreement.
Dec 18, 2010
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Chris Lang
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Four reactions to Cancun: Via Campesina, Bolivia, Friends of the Earth International and Indigenous Environmental Network
At the end of the two week-long UN climate change negotiations in Cancun, the Conference of the Parties adopted the Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc…
Dec 12, 2010
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