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The REDD+ Global Summit failed to address the problems with REDD
Kwami Kpondzo recently reported on the meeting for Global Forest Coalition.
 • Chris Lang
The carbon land grab: A debate between GRAIN and the Land Matrix
We need better land governance, better standards, and more transparency says the Land Matrix. We need to “put an end to offsetting as a false solution…
 • Chris Lang
Carbon trading under Article 6 threatens to make the climate crisis worse
UN standards inevitably fail to address the flaws in inherent in carbon trading.
 • Chris Lang
Protecting communities from carbon markets
A recent report from ActionAid USA highlights the dangers of carbon markets.
 • Chris Lang
Papua New Guinea has lifted its moratorium on REDD voluntary carbon market projects
How long before the return of the carbon cowboys?
 • Chris Lang
Forestry researchers raise serious concerns about REDD: Focus on carbon markets leading to “lesser scrutiny of safeguards”
“What have we learned from 15 years of REDD+ policy research?”
 • Chris Lang
“Article 6 is not about saving the planet. The COPs are not about climate change. This is about profit.” Interview with Dr. Tamra Gilbertson…
“Carbon markets fundamentally do not work, period.”
 • Chris Lang
“Problems under every stone we turned.” New report on REDD by the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project finds massive exaggerations of emissions…
“REDD+ is ill-suited to the generation of carbon credits for use as offsets.”
 • Chris Lang
Amnesty International on 30×30: “Indigenous peoples and local communities experience violence and forced eviction in the context of…
In December 2022, the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity will be held in Montreal.
 • Chris Lang
The Warsaw Framework for REDD Plus: The decision on summary of information on safeguards
The Warsaw decision on summary of information on safeguards is staggeringly weak.
 • Chris Lang
What came out of Warsaw on REDD? Part 1: The REDD decisions
Negotiators at the UN climate negotiations in Warsaw last week agreed a series of decisions on REDD.
 • Chris Lang
Greenpeace starts global consultation on the need for universal REDD+ safeguards
Greenpeace has launched a consultation document on REDD safeguards.
 • Chris Lang
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