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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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In the name of conservation: The Tanzanian government is escalating its campaign of violence and evictions against Indigenous People
The Oakland Institute has a new Urgent Alert about the situation in Tanzania.
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World Bank to carry out an investigation into evictions, killings, and human rights abuses associated with its REGROW project in Tanzania
“We are tired of living in constant fear for our lives,” say villagers threatened with eviction to make way for an expanded Ruaha National Park
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Violent evictions and human rights abuses in Tanzania supported by the World Bank
A new report by the Oakland Institute documents the Bank’s role in human rights abuses in southern Tanzania
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Africa Carbon Markets Initiative: “A disincentive to progress in cutting down on emissions”
ACMI will help corporations to greenwash their pollution. It will not help address the climate crisis
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Human rights abuses against Indigenous Peoples and the proposed “30×30” target
The proposed target to protect 30% of the earth’s land and water is dominating the UN biodiversity meeting in Montreal.
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The International Finance Corporation’s Carbon Opportunities Fund: Cryptocarbon, blockchain, and US corporations registered in the tax haven…
The International Finance Corporation has launched the Carbon Opportunities Fund, “a global investment platform that will raise private capital for an…
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