This moratorium comes after industry watchdog group Carbon Market Watch raised “significant red flags” about a 100-year carbon credit deal in Oro province. The PNG government identifies two separate of carbon credit deals: voluntary carbon schemes and result-based carbon schemes. “If we have those in place, can safely say that we can go for carbon […]
KISANGANI, Congo — A major European logging firm may have illegally converted more than a dozen of its timber concessions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo into so-called conservation concessions, a new investigation can reveal. The concessions were reassigned without public oversight or consultation with people who will be affected. They regulate the temperature […]
Sitting on the eastern half of the island, it has a population of roughly nine million people who speak a combined 850 different languages, each representing a different tribe. Less well known is that PNG is home to more than 1,000 different tribes, some of them not widely acknowledged until the mid-1990s. At least, that’s […]
At COP26 in Glasgow last November, countries agreed on new rules for a global carbon market, which some analysts say could be worth as much as $180 billion by 2030. Last March, the French multinational, better known as Total before rebranding last year, announced a plan to create a 40,000-hectare acacia plantation in the remote […]
We don’t yet know how much forest loss occurred in 2021, but deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose 22% for the year ended July 31, 2021, according to Brazil’s national space research institute INPE. These various meetings resulted in plenty of platitudes about the need to protect forests as part of climate change mitigation efforts […]