REDD: 1/19 of 19
Conservation can only work by putting a value on forests
Ben Caldecott
29th November, 2011
REDD+ type projects to protect rainforests face many obstacles but we should not give up on market-based solutions, says Ben Caldecott from the investment bank Climate Change Capital more...
Warning over REDD projects excluding rural poor from forests
Tom Levitt
16th June, 2011
Global study finds forests provide one-fifth of household income in rural communities and says access for them should be prioritised in REDD-type conservation projects more...
UN forest protection plans failing because of land scarcity and demand for food
Tom Levitt
24th January, 2011
REDD-type forest agreements ignore indigenous populations and are seeing a scramble for forest 'carbon credits' by governments and individuals, warns study more...
Logging company accused of ‘misleading public’ with carbon conservation project
Kara Moses
3rd December, 2010
Controversial Indonesian company Asia Pulp & Paper has come under fire from environmentalists because of 'false claims' over Sumatran rainforest carbon reserve more...
Cancun: your five-minute guide to the COP16 climate change conference
Vi Nguyen
25th November, 2010
Following the hype and failure of last year's Copenhagen COP15 summit, the Ecologist outlines what's on the agenda at the forthcoming COP16 Cancun conference – and assesses the chances of progress...more...
Lack of forest definition ‘major obstacle’ in fight to protect rainforests
Kara Moses
20th October, 2010
In the second in our series examining REDD we report how ambiguous forest definitions are putting the future success of forest protection schemes in doubt and allowing logging companies to destroy biodiverse habitats more...
Fears of corruption as REDD forest-protection schemes begin
Lynn Morris
13th October, 2010
Misunderstandings and scepticism around schemes that pay countries to protect their forests are rife, with fears that without proper policing it will be a magnet for organised crime and corruption more...
Shell funding of forest protection scheme could result in 'largest land grab of all time'
Ecologist
8th September, 2010
Oil giant's investment in Indonesian REDD conservation project is a crude attempt to increase profit and gloss over its expanding oil drilling operations, say campaigners more...
Growing conflicts over Tanzania's 'charismatic carbon'
Thembi Mutch
7th September 2010
The country's forests are at the centre of a new global scramble to 'buy up' carbon, but as Thembi Mutch reports, is the process really going to benefit the environment or people? more...
I applaud Norway's $1bn funding offer to Indonesia. But where will that money go?
Professor William Laurance
2nd July, 2010
Norway's $1 billion of anti-deforestation funding to Indonesia is nothing short of amazing. But we should watch very carefully to see whether the money reaches the right pockets... more...
Protecting rainforests shown to reduce poverty
Ecologist
28th May, 2010
Introduction of measures to protect rainforests and ecosystems in Costa Rica and Thailand over the past 40 years have improved the livelihoods of the local population more...
Why only the Amazonians can save the rainforest
Nicholas Bruschi
11th May, 2010
'Saving the rainforest' has been a battle-cry of the environmental movement since its inception. But just what does that mean, how does it work, and who exactly does the 'saving'? more...
REDD: 1/19 of 19
Atlantic Rising: Liberia faces choice between deforestation and REDD
Tim Bromfield
11th January, 2010
If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon Liberia's remaining rainforest cover is likely to go the same way as its neighbours in Cote d'Ivoire more...
'There's a lot of money looking to get involved in REDD'
Phil England
15th December, 2009
In an interview at Copenhagen, Bill Barclay of the Rainforest Action Network explains why the huge amount of money behind forest carbon schemes could lead to the tail wagging the dog more...
Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...
All carbon is not born equal
Eric Marx
17th November, 2009
Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle deforestation assumes that a tonne of tree carbon is the same as a tonne of fossil carbon? more...
Conmen are already selling dodgy forest carbon
Dan Box
16th October, 2009
Fancy some forest carbon, guv'nor? Only one careful owner... Dan Box explains why a cautious approach to deforestation schemes would be wise more...
Reducing carbon emissions from deforestation
Mark Anslow
1st March 2009
We can all agree on what the problem is, it’s settling on a solution that’s the difficult part. Mark Anslow explores the complicated world of deforestation more...
Hedge funds for forests?
Mark Anslow
6th June, 2008
Protecting rainforests is now almost as lucrative as cutting them down. Mark Anslow reports on a commodities-centred approach to stopping deforestation more...Members
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