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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...

The trouble with trees: The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative is based on a “profound misreading of Africa’s grassy biomes”

by No-Redd | Apr 2, 2020 | Forests & Biodiversity

By Chris Lang The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) aims “to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030”. AFR100 is an offshoot of the Bonn Challenge. The Bonn Challenge aims to “restore forest landscapes”...

Indonesia’s Katingan REDD project sells carbon credits to Shell. But that doesn’t mean the forest is protected. It’s threatened by land conflicts, fires and a palm oil plantation

by No-Redd | Dec 12, 2019 | Forests & Biodiversity

By Chris Lang The Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project covers an area of about 150,000 hectares in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The project was created in 2007 by an Indonesian company called PT Rimba Makmur Utama. The director of...

Launched at COP25, IETA’s Markets for Natural Climate Solutions is greenwash for the oil industry

by No-Redd | Dec 11, 2019 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Plantations & Agriculture

By Chris Lang On 5 December 2019, at COP25 in Madrid, the International Emissions Trading Association held a side event to launch its Markets for Natural Climate Solutions initiative. The aim is to help create “Global markets for carbon credits...