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World Bank-funded Zambézia Integration Landscape Management Programme in Mozambique has failed to stop deforestation. “Minimal benefits…
A new report by Public Integrity Center finds that ZILMP faces “significant challenges”: increasing deforestation, slow administrative processes, and…
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Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits
No provable additionality. And double counting.
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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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Congo’s forest ‘emissions reductions programme’: Germany, Norway and UK taxpayers paying for nothing
As the World Bank-backed Forest Carbon Partnership Facility produces only ‘hot air’ emissions reductions.
How the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative is promoting the expansion of industrial tree plantations
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative aims to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030.
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Democratic Republic of Congo plans to lift logging moratorium
Last week, Eve Bazaïba, the vice prime minister and environment minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced plans to lift a ban on new…
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Nicaraguan Alliance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples statement of concern about World Bank REDD deal
In December 2019, the Nicaraguan Alliance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples (APIAN) released a statement expressing its concern about a REDD…
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REDD in Colombia: Continued deforestation and extractivist development
“The greatest issue, or challenge, of our time is climate change,” Iván Duque, president of Colombia, said in Davos at the 2020 World Economic Forum.
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Six indigenous people killed in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua. “When a country doesn’t respect the rule of law, this is the…
On 29 January 2020, 80 heavily armed settlers attacked the community of Alal, a Mayangna indigenous community, in Nicaragua.
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The shambles of the World Bank’s REDD negotiations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The World Bank and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo are coming to the end of negotiations about the country’s Emission Reductions…
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The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility “has not saved a single hectare of forest”
The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility is supposed to help countries in the Global South reduce emissions from deforestation and forest…
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Bruce Rich on the World Bank’s response to climate change: 2. The REDD+ programme is “in denial about the intractable challenge of…
In his book “Foreclosing the Future”, Bruce Rich notes that one of the lessons of 20 years of the World Bank is “governance first”.
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