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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
NGO letter to Forest Carbon Partnership Facility highlights “Emerging Accountability Gap”
A letter to the Participants Committee Members of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), signed by 32 NGOs from 11 countries…
 • Chris Lang
Eight problems with Norway’s REDD support to Guyana: Open letter to Erik Solheim
Next week, Erik Solheim, Norway’s Minister of the Environment & International Development, will be visiting Guyana.
 • Chris Lang
Smoke and Mirrors: A critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
A new report from FERN and the Forest Peoples Programme concludes that the safeguards put in place by the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership (FCPF…
 • Chris Lang
FERN report on REDD in Cancun: “increased risk that REDD activities will fuel conflict, undermine forest peoples’ rights and fail to reduce…
FERN has released its analysis of the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, COP 16, as part of the January 2011 issue of Forest Watch. A year ago, in its…
 • Chris Lang
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