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		<title>CDM does not reduce emissions. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground does</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CDM does not reduce emissions. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground does CDM proponents reluctantly admit the truth about carbon offsets: they don&#8217;t reduce emissions. Published in WRM Bulletin No. 172, November 2011 Last month, I was in Bangkok for a meeting about carbon markets in southeast Asia. It was ironic to be discussing a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1283&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Nilsson: Carbon Cowboy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, I have written three posts on REDD-Monitor about an Australian &#8220;businessman&#8221; 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. They are reposted here in full: 3rd May 2011: AIDESEP and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1302&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REDD-Monitor&#8217;s May 2011 round-up: Watching REDD unravel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 09:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 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 After almost five month&#8217;s of dithering, Indonesia&#8217;s two-year forest moratorium started this month. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faced a choice between two options: one version of the moratorium would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1229&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The world is watching as the Indonesia-Norway REDD deal stalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is Indonesia&#8217;s forest moratorium? By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 163, February 2011 Indonesia is a crucial country for REDD. It has one of the fastest rates of deforestation in the world. And, as a direct result of this deforestation (particularly the destruction of peatswamp forests) Indonesia is the world&#8217;s third highest emitter of carbon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1208&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forest destroyer Oji Paper to carry out REDD feasibility study in Laos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oji 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 In 2005, a Japanese company called Oji Paper took over a project to plant 50,000 hectares of mainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1192&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monocultures on the March in Southeast Asia</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2010/09/19/monocultures-on-the-march-in-southeast-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monocultures continue to expand in Southeast Asia &#8211; as does the resistance to them. By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 158, September 2010 &#8220;The crucial characteristic of monocultures is that they do not merely displace alternatives, they destroy their own basis. They are neither tolerant of other systems, nor are they able to reproduce themselves sustainably.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1158&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How FAO helps greenwash the timber industry&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2010/08/24/how-fao-helps-greenwash-the-timber-industrys-greenhouse-gas-emissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FAO uses tax payers&#8217; money to promote the timber and pulp and paper industries. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 157, August 2010 Faced with greenhouse gas emissions at every stage of the production chain, the timber industry has a choice. It could look at reducing emissions. Or it could attempt to greenwash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1135&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is carbon trading for?</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2010/06/24/what-is-carbon-trading-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon 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. Patrick Birley, the Chief Executive of the European Climate Exchange, knows a thing or two about carbon trading. He should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1110&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European Ecolabel&#8217;s greenwashing of Asia Pulp and Paper must stop</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2010/04/22/european-ecolabels-greenwashing-of-asia-pulp-and-paper-must-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[APP 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. The European Commission claims that the EU Ecolabel is only awarded to “the very best products, which are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1088&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia: Government proposes 21 million hectares of plantations to meet climate targets</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2010/01/26/indonesia-government-proposes-21-million-hectares-of-plantations-to-meet-climate-targets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia&#8217;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. There are two realities in the forestry sector in Indonesia. In one, the forests continue to be destroyed, peatswamps are drained, forests are logged, burned and replaced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=1072&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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