Forest carbon finance, through avoided deforestation, is at best a sticking plaster solution that fails to get to the roots of the problem, argues Harriet Williams
… Forest carbon finance fails root and branch Harriet Williams … Carbon Forests Natural World Forest carbon finance, through avoided deforestation, is at … such as the mining, agricultural and finance sectors whose operations often lead to …
Claims that the ivory trade is financing terrorism in Africa are all based on a single unreliable source, writes Diogo Veríssimo, yet the real link between terror groups and the illegal charcoal trade barely gets a mention. Is the 'reality gap' caused by the 'Like, share, donate' cycle that drives social media and fund-raising?
… there is evidence that it has been used to finance armed groups in Africa such as the … establishes a solid link between al-Shabaab's finances and another environmental crime: …
COP22 has revealed signs of real momentum toward an effective role for tropical forests in achieving a low carbon future, writes Tony Juniper. Now for the hard bit - connecting with realities on the ground to make it happen. This will mean working with indigenous and other forest communities to support and reward their conservation efforts, while harnessing large-scale international carbon finance.
… harnessing large-scale international carbon finance. With government negotiators from … animals, such as tigers and forest elephants. Finance for equitable outcomes These different … landscapes are being backed by a new wave of finance, some of which is coming via funds …
Greece's economic woes will never be solved by merely moving money around the banking system, writes Oliver Tickell. The lasting solution is to restore native forests to her barren hills and mountains, invest in large-scale solar power to energise Europe, and create an examplar of sustainable development for our global future.
… Tickell | 7th July 2015 Comment Greece EU Finance Forests greece-forest-stream-cut.jpg … for our global future. The former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis famously … Amazingly, Germany is currently planning to finance half the cost of the brand new 660MW …
The World Bank's 'Tropical Forest Action Plan' was an abject failure, writes Chris Lang. Now the same mistakes are being repeated under a new acronym. TFAP is out, REDD is in - but it's still all about corporate control of forests, and blaming deforestation on its victims.
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A new paradigm of forest conservation is gaining ground, writes Isaac Rojas: 'financialising' them and the climate and ecological services they provide to global investors. But this is a false solution - and one that excludes the local and indigenous forest communities who can truly be relied upon to sustain their sylvan heritage.
… | 2nd November 2015 Comment Forests Commons Finance Indigenous Peoples … Financialization goes even further. Just as finance is outside of the real economy, so too … Another form of 'enclosure' by global finance 'Green growth' redefines 'green', not …
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
… around the best way to actually pay and finance REDD+ activities, as well as how to … and programmes economic, and therefore financeable. ERUMs guarantee payments for … an international carbon market able to finance the scale of REDD+ activity necessary …
We are told there is a choice between forest and food. But in reality it is industrial processes that are destroying sustainable farming and the ecosystem. KIRTANA CHANDRASEKARAN discusses a new report from Friends of the Earth International which suggests agroecology is an alternative that can respect people and planet
… the highest profit possible for food and finance corporations. These same … food system is controlled by global food and finance corporations. This means in order to …
It's not just western corporations that are moving into large-scale agribusiness in Ethiopia, writes Mohammad Amir Anwar. Indian investors have acquired rights to some 6,000 sq.km of land much of it in the ecologically sensitive Gambela region, where unconsulted Nuer and Anuak peoples are suffering from forest clearance.
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Indonesia's President Widodo has promised strong action to put out his country's raging forest fires, writes Scott Edwards. Yet this year's conflagrations are the worst since 1997. His problem? Powerful elites in forested provinces are making big money from the burning. And they see little reason to heed Widodo's pleas - or anyone else's.
… lack of campaign subsidies mean only limited finance makes its way to local candidates, who …
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations, writes WRM in this Open Letter for delivery to the FAO today, International Forests Day. This mis-definition seriously harms real forests and forest peoples as it justifies the clearance of real forests and their replacement with cash crops of trees.
… in the hope of attracting so-called 'climate finance'. Unsurprisingly, the definitions used …
Industrial logging in the world's second largest rainforest is out of control, writes Raoul Monsembula, and spells disaster for both wildlife and forest people. There is an alternative: community forestry has just been enshrined in law. But resources must be committed to law enforcement in Congo and abroad, and to empowering forest communities.
End the Congo logging chaos for rainforest, people and bonobos! Raoul Monsembula Greenpeace Africa | 1st June 2015 Comment Forests Congo Africa Indigenous Peoples Law Regulation Commons bonobo.jpg …
Based on current performance tropical forests, the world's most biodiverse ecosystems, are set to be reduced to species-impoverished fragments by the end of the century, writes Simon Lewis. But it's not inevitable. Decisive action by the world's governments in Paris in December could secure desperately needed change.
… on reducing deforestation, including durable finance, could play an important role in …
We must beware an 'environmental' agenda that excludes the human dimension, Pope Francis writes in his recent Encyclical: the poor are least to blame for the ecological and climate crises, yet they are its primary victims. Humanity must make enduring decisions about the world we and our children will share.
… our politics are subject to technology and finance. There are too many special interests, …