Guest Post: Central Kalimantan’s oil palm catastrophe in pictures
In May 2010, Indonesia’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, signed a Letter of Intent with Norway for a US$1 billion REDD deal. In December 2010, Yudhoyono announced that Central Kalimantan would be...
View ArticleGuest Post: Presenting the Great REDD Perpetual Motion Machine – Part 1
Dominic Elson is an economic development consultant specialising in forestry and natural resources. REDD-Monitor invited him to write a guest post explaining his views about REDD. Part 1 is posted...
View ArticleGuest Post: Presenting the Great REDD Perpetual Motion Machine – Part 2
Dominic Elson is an economic development consultant specialising in forestry and natural resources. REDD-Monitor invited him to write a guest post explaining his views about REDD. Part 1 was posted...
View ArticleGuest Post: Redeeming REDD
Michael Brown has more than 30 years experience in international development. He is the president and founder of Satya Development International, a consulting firm based in Washington DC. He works on...
View ArticleGuest Post: REDD+ fails the world’s forests and climate
Wally Menne is a South African environmental campaigner and a member of the Timberwatch Coalition. Since the mid-1990s, Timberwatch has exposed and monitored the environmental and social impacts of...
View ArticleGuest Post: A Pathetic REDD Package
Simone Lovera is co-founder and executive director of the Global Forest Coalition, an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations. In this guest post, she describes the REDD...
View ArticleGuest Post: “Welcome to the machine.” A guide to the Forest Carbon...
Anja Bursche has worked as an environmental governance consultant for German Development Cooperation, focusing on the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility from 2011 to 2013. The views and opinions...
View ArticleGuest Post: Tackling the Forest Information Problem with Global Forest Watch
Three weeks ago, REDD-Monitor wrote about Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring system run by World Resources Institute and more than 40 partners. The tool provides a huge amount of...
View ArticleGuest Post: Leaked World Bank documents reveal risk of serious weakening of...
Korinna Horta has worked for more than 20 years on international finance, environment and human rights issues. She currently works with Urgewald, a German NGO. I asked Horta if she would write a Guest...
View ArticleGuest Post: The “New York Declaration” on forests – a smokescreen for...
Earlier this week, REDD-Monitor wrote about a project called “Creating demand for REDD+”. The three-year project is funded to the tune of US$5 million by Norway and is run by two Washington-based think...
View ArticleGuest Post: Metamorphosis of destructive logging companies
Several multinational pulp and paper and palm oil companies have recently declared “zero deforestation policies”. In this guest post, Peter Gerhardt asks the question, “What is a no-deforestation...
View ArticleGuest Post: Sengwers Feeling the Heat in the Embobut Forest
Dean Puckett is a British documentary film-maker. He is currently in Kenya working on a film about the evictions of the Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Cherangani Hills. Puckett sent...
View ArticleGuest Post: The carbon credits sold to private individuals as investments are...
In a post last week, I described the carbon credits sold by boiler room scammers to retail investors as “near-worthless”. Following the post, “XYZ” left a comment. “Near-worthless implies not 100%...
View ArticleGuest Post: Brazil: spoiler or leader?
Dr. Maria Fernanda Gebara is a social and political scientist who has been working with climate and forests issues for more than 10 years. She is currently working as a consultant with the Centre for...
View ArticleGuest Post: From the chaos of REDD-plus towards the Bonn Challenge’s maze
Yvette Aguilar is an expert and adviser on the issue of climate change of El Salvador Round-Table and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in El Salvador. She submitted this Guest Post looking at the way...
View ArticleGuest Post: Between Suruí and “Acapú”: REDD and scientists’ ethical dilemmas
Michael Schmidlehner is a researcher, NGO founder and climate justice activist in Rio Branco, capital of the Brazilian state of Acre. He submitted this Guest Post about an academic paper looking at a...
View ArticleGuest Post: TAMS – Failed experiments with carbon in Madagascar
In 2016, Sara Peña Valderrama completed her PhD in social anthropology, where she studied a forest carbon project run by Conservation International in Madagascar. Her thesis is available on Durham...
View ArticleGuest Post: Tackling the Forest Information Problem with Global Forest Watch
Three weeks ago, REDD-Monitor wrote about Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring system run by World Resources Institute and more than 40 partners. The tool provides a huge amount of...
View ArticleGuest Post: Metamorphosis of destructive logging companies
Several multinational pulp and paper and palm oil companies have recently declared “zero deforestation policies”. In this guest post, Peter Gerhardt asks the question, “What is a no-deforestation...
View ArticleGuest Post: Leaked World Bank documents reveal risk of serious weakening of...
Korinna Horta has worked for more than 20 years on international finance, environment and human rights issues. She currently works with Urgewald, a German NGO. I asked Horta if she would write a Guest...
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