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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.
 • 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.
 • 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”.
 • Chris Lang
“Let me stop you right there.” The BBC’s missed opportunity to talk about colonialism, elite capture, the climate crisis and Exxon’s carbon…
An interesting, but intensely frustrating, interview.
 • 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.
 • 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…
 • 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…
 • 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
Guyana is to sell US$750 million carbon offsets to Hess Corporation, a US-based oil corporation that is extracting oil in Guyana. The saga…
Since 2015, oil corporations have made more than 30 oil discoveries in the Stabroek exploration block off the coast of Guyana.
 • Chris Lang
Norway is planning to pay Indonesia for fudging its REDD carbon accounting
On 16 February 2019 in Jakarta, Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Ola Elvestuen, and Indonesia’s Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti…
 • Chris Lang
ExxonMobil strikes US$200 billion offshore oil reserves in Guyana. Gives US$10 million to Conservation International
Conservation International and the University of Guyana recently accepted US$10 million from ExxonMobil Foundation.
 • Chris Lang
Why did Norway agree to pay US$40 million just before Guyana’s election?
On 8 May 2015, the Government of Guyana put out a press release announcing that Norway had agreed a further US$40 million “for maintaining low…
 • Chris Lang
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