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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…
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Offsets discredited. Again
Analysis by SOMO and Data Desk reveals the offset industry’s claims do not stand up.
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REDD+ Alert: World Bank discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the East Kalimantan jurisdictional REDD project
No free, prior informed consent. No benefits. No recognition of Indigenous Peoples' rights.
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The Tropical Forests Forever Facility: “The worst conservation fund ever?”
Another false solution for tropical forests.
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The biodiversity funding gap “is a dangerous way to approach debates about what is needed to transform societies to improve nature…
In an interview with Acción Ecológica, Andre Standing explains what’s wrong with the whole idea of a US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap.
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Conflicts of interest and Verra’s cancellation of 5 million C-Quest cookstove carbon credits
Verra’s system is riddled with conflicts of interest.
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The UK’s new climate envoy, Rachel Kyte, imagines carbon as “the currency of the 21st century”
What a £4 million donation to the Labour Party from the Cayman Islands gets you.
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World Bank-funded Zambézia Integration Landscape Management Programme in Mozambique has failed to stop deforestation. “Minimal benefits…
A new report by Public Integrity Center finds that ZILMP faces “significant challenges”: increasing deforestation, slow administrative processes, and…
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Indigenous Peoples are crucially important to protecting biodiversity, but the claim that 80% of biodiversity is found on Indigenous lands…
A new paper in Nature Magazine finds that the 80% figure is unsupported.
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“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions and loss of basic rights
The government has removed the Ngorongoro division from the voters’ register, denying the Maasai the right to vote.
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“Over-issuance of millions of carbon credits”: C-Quest Capital announces “wrongdoing” by its former CEO, Ken Newcombe
At the World Bank, and then in the private sector, Newcombe was one of the major proponents of carbon trading. He also spent 16 years on Verra’s board…
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“This will finish us”. Conservation, trophy hunting, and tourism is destroying Maasai livelihoods and culture in northern Tanzania
A superb article in The Atlantic reveals the impact of government policies on the Maasai.
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