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Resounding The Alarm Against False Solutions
FOREST CARBON DIALOGUE – The truth behind Carbon Offsets In a first of its kind, highly interactive and engaging dialogue, the No REDD in Africa Network in collaboration with Health of Mother Earth Foundation held a Forest Carbon dialogue tagged The truth behind...
NRAN stands with WACMo to Reinforce Resistance Against False Climate Solutions
The No REDD in Africa Network participated in a meeting held on 15th July 2025, with over 100 participants - civil society leaders, grassroots activists, and environmental justice advocates - from ten countries, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali,...
Deconstructing and Debunking False Solutions: REDD+ and Carbon Markets in Africa
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.
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
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
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...
REDD+ FANGS BITE WIDENS
The scourge of false solutions spreads even more and yet again African forests and lands are bearing the brunt of it. While multinationals are quick to invest millions of dollars in greenwashing schemes, they were conspicuously silent and refused to contribute to the...
Why did Jacob Zuma represent Belarus at the Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum in Zimbabwe?
This week saw the first Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Organised by Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market and Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Environment, the Forum’s theme is “Accelerating Africa into the Climate Economy”. Bloomberg...
TotalEnergies’ carbon plantations have “snatched” farmers’ land in the Republic of Congo
TotalEnergies is one of the world’s biggest oil companies. In 2022, it made a profit of US$16 billion. At the company’s 2023 Shareholders’ Meeting, shareholders rejected a resolution to set targets “aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement” scope 3...
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
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...
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NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of African Civil Society organizations, movements, activists and individuals that oppose all kinds of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).