World Rainforest Movement: The climate and forest crises cannot be solved...
In the run-up to the UNFCCC climate negotiations in Paris, World Rainforest Movement put out a statement. “Instead of spending time on real solutions like leaving fossil fuels underground, the climate...
View ArticleTen Reasons Why Climate Initiatives Should Not Include Large Hydropower Projects
A journalist recently quoted me as saying that to address climate change, we should keep fossil fuels in the ground. So far, so good. But he added that we should then invest heavily in renewables like...
View ArticleI’m a GNU. How do you do? A REDD animal appears in Paris with a promise of...
On the first day of the UN climate negotiations in Paris, the governments of Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom pledged US$5 billion for REDD, between 2015 and 2020. The GNU countries say they...
View ArticleCOP21: What’s happened so far?
Today marks the start of the second week of the UN climate change negotiations in Paris. After a week of negotiations we have a Draft Paris Outcome. The draft outcome contains 940 pairs of square...
View ArticleIndigenous Environmental Network: “REDD is a contradiction and violation of...
Last week, the Indigenous Environmental Network held a press conference at COP21 in Paris. Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said, “REDD and other carbon market...
View ArticleWill carbon markets ever deliver for southern governments, forests and people?
“Carbon trading does not reduce emissions, will not deliver money where it is needed on the ground and will not recognize the important role that communities play in protecting forests.” That’s from a...
View ArticleCOP21 Paris snapshot #1: REDD
Last night at 21:00 a new version of the Draft Paris Outcome was released at COP21 in Paris. It’s down to 27 pages and has only 50 pairs of square brackets. That’s the good news. The rest is...
View ArticleCOP21 Paris snapshot #2: No REDD!
While REDD is edging its way into the Paris Outcome, a series of protests and statements against REDD have taken place at the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris. Here’s a round-up, with photographs,...
View ArticleCOP21 Paris: REDD and carbon markets
“Governments have signalled an end to the fossil fuel era,” reported the Guardian on Saturday. “Nearly 200 countries signed on to a legal agreement on Saturday evening that set ambitious goals to limit...
View ArticleWhat does the Paris climate agreement mean for forests and forest peoples’...
In its latest issue of EU Forest Watch, FERN has published a special report on the Paris climate conference, focussing on forests and the rights of people living in and near forests. FERN starts its...
View ArticleHow can Trump pull the US out of the Paris Agreement and what will it mean...
This afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump is due to announce whether the US will leave the Paris Agreement. Predictably enough, Trump revealed the time and place via a...
View ArticleAu revoir America. Trump announces that the US will leave the Paris Agreement
On 1 June 2017 Donald Trump announced that the US has left the Paris Agreement. Yesterday, I wrote that there were two ways of leaving: leaving the Paris Agreement (which would take four years); or...
View Article22 things Donald Trump got wrong about the Paris Agreement
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that the US would pull out of the Paris Agreement. His statement is riddled with mistakes, misleading statements, and utter nonsense. So here’s a bit of fact-checking:...
View ArticleCOP21: What’s happened so far?
Today marks the start of the second week of the UN climate change negotiations in Paris. After a week of negotiations we have a Draft Paris Outcome. The draft outcome contains 940 pairs of square...
View ArticleIndigenous Environmental Network: “REDD is a contradiction and violation of...
Last week, the Indigenous Environmental Network held a press conference at COP21 in Paris. Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said, “REDD and other carbon market...
View ArticleWill carbon markets ever deliver for southern governments, forests and people?
“Carbon trading does not reduce emissions, will not deliver money where it is needed on the ground and will not recognize the important role that communities play in protecting forests.” That’s from a...
View ArticleCOP21 Paris snapshot #1: REDD
Last night at 21:00 a new version of the Draft Paris Outcome was released at COP21 in Paris. It’s down to 27 pages and has only 50 pairs of square brackets. That’s the good news. The rest is...
View ArticleCOP21 Paris snapshot #2: No REDD!
While REDD is edging its way into the Paris Outcome, a series of protests and statements against REDD have taken place at the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris. Here’s a round-up, with photographs,...
View ArticleCOP21 Paris: REDD and carbon markets
“Governments have signalled an end to the fossil fuel era,” reported the Guardian on Saturday. “Nearly 200 countries signed on to a legal agreement on Saturday evening that set ambitious goals to limit...
View ArticleWhat does the Paris climate agreement mean for forests and forest peoples’...
In its latest issue of EU Forest Watch, FERN has published a special report on the Paris climate conference, focussing on forests and the rights of people living in and near forests. FERN starts its...
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