CDM does not reduce emissions. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground does
CDM proponents reluctantly admit the truth about carbon offsets: they don’t reduce emissions.
Published in WRM Bulletin No. 172, November 2011
David Nilsson: Carbon Cowboy
22 NovThis year, I have written three posts on REDD-Monitor about an Australian “businessman” called David Nilsson and his activities in Peru. I suggested that he should receive the award of Australian carbon cowboy of the year, after his interactions with the Matsés Indigenous Peoples.
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REDD-Monitor’s May 2011 round-up: Watching REDD unravel
28 MayA round-up of everything you need to know in the world of REDD this month. Well, almost everything.
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 166, May 2011
The world is watching as the Indonesia-Norway REDD deal stalls
3 MarWhere is Indonesia’s forest moratorium?
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 163, February 2011
Forest destroyer Oji Paper to carry out REDD feasibility study in Laos
29 NovOji Paper has cleared large areas of forest in Laos to make way for its industrial tree plantations. Now the company hopes to get REDD funding for its monocultures.
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 160, November 2010
Monocultures on the March in Southeast Asia
19 SepMonocultures continue to expand in Southeast Asia – as does the resistance to them.
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 158, September 2010
How FAO helps greenwash the timber industry’s greenhouse gas emissions
24 AugThe FAO uses tax payers’ money to promote the timber and pulp and paper industries.
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 157, August 2010
What is carbon trading for?
24 JunCarbon traders do not pretend that carbon trading will reduce emissions. But if carbon trading is not supposed to reduce emissions, what is it for?
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 155, June 2010.
European Ecolabel’s greenwashing of Asia Pulp and Paper must stop
22 AprAPP is one of the most controversial pulp and paper companies on the planet. So why have two of its paper products been awarded the EU Ecolabel?
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 153, April 2010.
Indonesia: Government proposes 21 million hectares of plantations to meet climate targets
26 JanIndonesia’s plans for massive plantation expansion make little sense in terms of addressing either deforestation or climate change.
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 150, January 2010.
Indonesia: Plantations, human rights and REDD
22 DecWill the plantation companies responsible for destroying villagers’ livelihoods benefit from REDD?
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 149, December 2009.
REDD text an insult to Indigenous Peoples
18 DecWhilst the latest Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) text doesn’t have the words “Made in the USA” anywhere on it, it should have.
By Chris Lang, Published in Climate Chronicle No. 5, Transnational Institute’s COP-15 newspaper, 17 December 2009.
REDD, REDD+, REDD++, REDD and bacon, sausage and spam …
14 DecGetting tired of the ever expanding REDD plans? Me too.
By Chris Lang, Published in Climate Chronicle No. 3, Transnational Institute’s COP-15 newspaper, 11 December 2009
Greenwashing the green desert in Copenhagen
30 NovThe UN definition of forests must exclude industrial tree plantations.
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 148, November 2009.
Destroying with one hand, taking with the other: Biomass, REDD and forests
25 AugWhy does the UN’s latest scheme to save the forests not address the drivers of deforestation?
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 145, August 2009.
Laos: Chinese company Sun Paper plans eucalyptus monocultures
21 JulMore eucalyptus monocultures are planned for Laos.
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The gaping chasm between climate science and climate negotiations
28 JunClimate scientists and climate negotiators might as well live on different planets.
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Cambodia’s Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities
18 JunThe largest area of intact lowland evergreen forests in southeast Asia is under threat.
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Wilful ignorance: FAO and industrial tree plantations
28 AprFAO continues to push the lie of “planted forests”.
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Bath tubs, forests, carbon trading and climate change
21 FebWhy trading the carbon stored in forests will not help address runaway climate change.
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Plantations, poverty and power
6 FebEurope’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
A report by Chris Lang, published by World Rainforest Movement, December 2008
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