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The World Bank’s Atiala Atsinanana REDD project in Madagascar: “5% of the revenues from carbon credits are allocated to local communities…
An excellent investigative report by Lynda Andriatsitonta of the Malina network.
 • Chris Lang
RUSH: Global Scramble for Minerals Wages War on People and Planet
New report from the Oakland Institute highlights how the military, AI, and corporate interests are driving the global rush for critical minerals.
 • Chris Lang
Sigma Lithium claims that its mine in Brazil is “carbon neutral”. It bought REDD carbon credits from the Unitor REDD project, which is now…
Ricardo Stoppe Júnior, the man behind the Unitor REDD project, is accused of selling about US$34 million illegal REDD credits.
 • Chris Lang
Norway’s Oil Fund is investing in Rio Tinto and South32, mining companies responsible for deforesting large areas of the Amazon rainforest
Norges Bank, which manages the Fund, did not divest despite a recommendation from its Council of Ethics to do so.
 • Chris Lang
Deforestation from gold mining inside the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility project in the Republic of Congo
The FCPF project was set up with an exaggerated baseline, it ignored the threat of mining, and was rigged to pay money to logging and palm oil…
 • Chris Lang
New report finds that Indonesia’s claim of 90% reduction of deforestation since 2016 is based on “cherry picking” and “exaggerates the…
While deforestation has fallen, serious threats remain.
 • Chris Lang
Real Zero not Net Zero: “The only solution is to stop burning fossil fuels”
Real Zero Statement from the recently launched Lethal Humidity Global Council.
 • Chris Lang
Ending fortress conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A new report from the Oakland Institute documents the abuses of the conservation industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
 • Chris Lang
Zimbabwe announces new carbon trading framework. All international carbon agreements are “null and void”
Zimbabwe will take 50% of all revenue from sales of carbon credits.
 • Chris Lang
Munduruku Indigenous communities oppose REDD project on their territory
The Munduruku Indigenous People of the Upper and Middle Tapajós and Lower Teles Pires Rivers recently met in Sawre Muybu village.
 • Chris Lang
The return of the Kamula Doso REDD project in Papua New Guinea: This time run by Mayur Resources, a mining company, and Santos, an oil and…
Mayur Resources Limited is an Australian company, registered in the tax haven of Singapore.
 • Chris Lang
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.
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