April 26, 2012
Two articles from Janette Bulkan, published in the Commonwealth Forestry Association Newsletter looking at logging and illegal logging in Guyana.
The failure of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to implement meaningful change to address illegal logging is notable, despite the fact that this is one of the progress indicators in the 2009 [...]
April 18, 2012
Interview with Frank Momberg, Fauna and Flora International, in Jakarta, March 2012.
REDD-Monitor: Please start with some background about FFI and about FFI’s involvement in Indonesia.
Frank Momberg: FFI is the world’s oldest conservation organization, founded in 1903. It is based in the United Kingdom and works in 40 countries worldwide. We’ve been [...]
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April 6, 2012
On 8 March 2012, the World Bank announced that the Draft Indonesia Forest Investment Plan was posted on the Ministry of Forestry’s website. The 114-page document was posted in English, with a comment period of “a little over two weeks”.
The commenting process is not transparent. Comments are to be sent to an [...]
April 3, 2012
In 2007, Norway announced that it would spend US$500 million a year to support REDD. But Norway has also invested US$13.7 billion in 73 companies in industry sectors that threaten forests, including oil palm, oil and gas, mining, cattle ranching, logging, pulp and paper, soy and hydropower dams.
A new report by Rainforest [...]
March 6, 2012
In the outcome of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action at the Durban COP17, the LCA invited “views on modalities and procedures for financing results-based actions and considering activities related to decision 1/CP.16, paragraphs 68–70 and 72″.
The submissions were due by 5 March 2012. Four countries have submitted [...]
March 1, 2012
A recent report from Friends of the Earth International takes a further look at the Australian-funded Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership. The report looks at the social and environmental effectiveness of the KFCP project and concludes that forest carbon offsets are a false solution to climate change.
The report, “In the REDD: Australia’s [...]