Forests & Biodiversity Archives - No-REDD in Africa Network

Deconstructing and Debunking False Solutions: REDD+ and Carbon Markets in Africa

by No-Redd | Jul 14, 2025 | Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Resources

African natural resources and biodiversity are being promoted as central tools of the market-based solutions to the current environmental crisis, particularly through REDD+ and the production of carbon credits. The recently created African Carbon Markets Initiative...

Deconstructing and Debunking New Forms of Green Colonialism.

by No-Redd | May 12, 2025 | Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity

The No REDD in Africa network on 31st March 2025 held a webinar to mark the 2025 International day of Forest with the theme Forest and Food and also to discuss a topical research carried out by the network. The critical aim of this webinar was to clearly expose...

False solutions Fueling Green Colonialism,COP29 and the REDD+ deception

by No-Redd | Dec 24, 2024 | Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity

NRAN decries COP29 as a failure , insisting that the newly added language of new collective quantified goals (NCQG) is just another ploy of the global north and transnational corporations to avoid bearing responsibility for their unchecked emissions which have caused...

MOBILIZING TO CHALLENGE POWER FOR SAFETY AND EQUITY IN NIGERIA

by No-Redd | Aug 6, 2024 | Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Interviews

Interview with Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) Executive Director, Nigeria In a riveting conversation, Nnimmo Bassey, a renowned activist, architect, poet, and pastor, delves into his transformative journey from spearheading Environmental...

Anatomy of a ‘Nature-Based Solution’: Total oil, 40,000 hectares of disappearing African savannah, Emmanuel Macron, Norwegian and French ‘aid’ to an election-rigging dictator, trees to burn, secret contacts, and dumbstruck conservationists

by No-Redd | Jan 18, 2022 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Plantations & Agriculture

On 16 March 2021, Total – the French company ranked seventh globally for production of oil – announced plans to plant a “40,000 hectare forest” in the Republic of Congo, the aim of which is to “sequester more than 10 million tons of CO2 over 20 years”. The company...

African tropical mountain forests store 2/3rd more carbon than previously estimated: Study

by No-Redd | Sep 2, 2021 | Forests & Biodiversity

The Nature report underscores the vital role these tropical forests play in combating climate changeResearchers examined carbon storage in the above-ground biomass of mountain forests on 226 selected plots spread over 44 mountain sites in 12 African countries — from...