Owen Paterson has done it again - offering up ancient woodland for development via 'biodiversity offsetting' - planting new trees elsewhere. Trouble is, says Austin Brady, ancient woods are centuries in the making.
… January 2014 Comment Forests Biodiversity Offsetting UK Ancient Woodland … woodland for development via 'biodiversity offsetting' - planting new trees elsewhere. … has moved the discussion about 'biodiversity offsetting' up back the agenda - and …
Hidden away in the pages of UN-speak that make up the Paris Agreement are the makings of global carbon market in which a host of exotic emissions derivatives can be freely traded, writes Steffen Böhm. And it's all going to be a huge and expensive distraction from the real and urgent task of cutting emissions.
… expansion of carbon trading, including offsetting, which allows the market exchange … 'carbon trading', 'carbon pricing', 'carbon offsetting' and 'carbon markets' don't appear … for a massive expansion of carbon trading and offsetting while setting some basic standards. …
For years the 'market mantra' has been to save forests by selling the carbon they embody, writes Chris Lang, harnessing the profit motive for the benefit of trees and climate. But it never worked, and now even former fans are admitting that REDD is just another failed conservation fad. So what next? How about asking local communities to manage their forests as commons?
REDD is dead. So now, how are we going to save the world's forests? Chris Lang | 11th February 2016 Comment Forests Conservation Climate Change Carbon Economics logging road in east kalimantan - …
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.
FAO: Plantations are not forests! World Rainforest Movement | 21st March 2017 Comment Forests Un Campaigning Indigenous Peoples eucalyptus_plantation_in_final_stages.jpg Since 1948 the UN's Food and …
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.
… rights. Similarly, pollution or biodiversity offsetting - the idea that damage caused in …
'No deforestation' pledges by global food corporations are yielding results, writes William Laurance. But now the Indonesian and Malaysian governments are calling on them to abandon their promises - even as the region's rainforests go up in smoke, cleared for new oil palm plantations. The companies must hold firm to their commitments.
As Indonesia burns, its government moves to increase forest destruction William Laurance James Cook University | 24th November 2015 Comment Forests Indonesia Malaysia Corporations Food Farming …
A few hours from Melbourne lies one of Australia's natural wonders - a soaring forest of Mountain Ash trees up to 90 metres tall, with a host of endangered species. David Lindenmayer demands a halt to the logging, and the creation of a new National Park.
A Great Forest National Park for SE Australia Professor David Lindenmayer | 1st April 2014 Comment Forests Australia Natural World ma-logging.png A few hours from Melbourne lies one of Australia's …