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Tomorrow’s Tropical Forests Forever Facility meeting is shrouded in secrecy
“Which version is being marketed in Rotterdam?”
 • Chris Lang
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is based on high risk, not easy profits
Two economists explain what’s wrong with the TFFF investment strategy.
 • 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
Norway hands over US$80 million to increase deforestation in Guyana
Norway has transferred US$80 million to the Inter-American Development Bank as part of the Norway-Guyana US$250 million REDD deal.
 • Chris Lang
65 cents per hectare: The cost of land for oil palm plantations in West Papua
An new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency and Telapak reveals that indigenous landowners in Sorong, West Papua province are being ripped…
 • Chris Lang
Norway and deforestation: “Offering its little finger to help, while using its fist to destroy”
In 2007, Norway announced that it would spend US$500 million a year to support REDD.
 • Chris Lang
How Norway and the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate threaten peatland and forest in Papua
A new report by Greenomics Indonesia documents how the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate threatens peatland and forest in Papua province…
 • Chris Lang
Can REDD save the forests of Muara Tae in East Kalimantan, Indonesia?
The Dayak Benuaq Indigenous People of Muara Tae in East Kalimantan are defending their last remaining area of forest against two palm oil companies.
 • Chris Lang
Norway: Saving rainforests with one hand, destroying with the other
“It has long been a fact: Norway is saving rainforest with one hand and destroying the rainforest with the other,” wrote Lars Løvold of Rainforest…
 • Chris Lang
REDD faces all round. Norway’s investment in forest destruction
On 19 May 2011, the day that Indonesia’s President finally signed the moratorium on forest concessions into force, activists from EIA and Telapak were…
 • Chris Lang
Norwegian finance for forest destruction in Indonesia. Oh, and where is the moratorium, by the way?
REDD in Indonesia: We are still waiting for the forest moratorium that should have started on 1 January 2011.
 • Chris Lang
Norway: Funding REDD and deforestation
Recently, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced the sale of US$1.4 million shares that Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) held in…
 • Chris Lang
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