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”...
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...
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...
by No-Redd | Nov 27, 2015 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity
The climate negotiations have done worse than nothing to prevent climate change. Nigerian activist Adesuwa Uwagie-Ero takes us on a historical journey, and suggests some ways to shift the international process onto a path toward climate justice. Seeing REDD As...
by No-Redd | Sep 10, 2015 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity
Yesterday, activists in Durban, South Africa launched the Durban Declaration on REDD. The Declaration opposes REDD, and rejects the “commodification, privatisation and plunder of Nature”. The Declaration was launched at an event organised under the Civil Society...
by No-Redd | Oct 24, 2014 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Plantations & Agriculture
Friends of the Earth International has just released its most recent assessment of the suite of carbon-trading forestry policies known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, or REDD. The report, “The great REDD gamble,” is available for...
