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“Worse than doing nothing”: Shell’s REDD offsets in Indonesia and Peru
Shell promises drivers in Denmark that they can become “CO₂ neutral” when they buy carbon offsets with the petrol on sale in Shell’s petrol stations.
 • Chris Lang
How the poorest of the poor end up paying for REDD
An article I wrote for iz3w.
 • Chris Lang
‘Actually existing’ REDD: Social tensions, ongoing deforestation, local confusion, financial benefits not delivered
“Early evidence from REDD+ projects suggests major challenges, including: ongoing weak enforcement of domestic laws on forests and land, leading to…
 • Chris Lang
Legal expert on communities in the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia: “REDD+ is done to them”
David Takacs is an Associate Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
 • Chris Lang
Guest Post: Oddar Meanchey communities “have long been abandoned”. The Fern report correctly raises a number of difficulties and challenges…
Dr Tim Frewer carried out part of the research for his PhD thesis in Cambodia, looking at the Oddar Meanchey REDD project.
 • Chris Lang
Responses from Terra Global Capital, VCS, and Wildlife Works to Fern’s report, “Unearned credit: Why aviation industry forest offsets are…
In November 2017, Fern published a report titled, “Unearned credit: Why aviation industry forest offsets are doomed to fail”.
 • Chris Lang
Virgin Atlantic has stopped buying carbon credits from the Oddar Meanchey REDD project
On 9 January 2018, Virgin Atlantic told the Phnom Penh Post that it had stopped buying carbon credits from the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia.
 • Chris Lang
Virgin Atlantic is offsetting its flights with carbon credits from the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia. Despite the project’s…
There is no way of avoiding the fact that flying is a disaster for the climate.
 • Chris Lang
Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia: “No one seems to be learning any lessons”
For the past three years, Timothy Frewer of the University of Sydney has been carrying out his PhD research in Cambodia, looking at the Oddar Meanchey…
 • Chris Lang
REDD in Cambodia: “The house is burning but they are discussing the colour of the curtains”
“The Forestry Administration has warned that the government will not meet its goal of achieving 60 percent forest cover nationwide if it continues…
 • Chris Lang
Military clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia (photos)
“The Oddar Meanchey REDD project model is centered on local people’s participation in forest management,” said Ty Sokhun, head of Cambodia’s Forestry…
 • Chris Lang
“The program here for carbon trading is dead,” says villager in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia
Things just keep getting worse for the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia.
 • Chris Lang
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