8 years 5 months ago
International Forestry Review http://dx.doi.org/10.1505/146554816818966336
The ‘virtual economy’ of REDD+ projects: does private certification of REDD+ projects ensure their environmental integrity?
C. SEYLLER, S. DESBUREAUX, S. ONGOLO, A. KARSENTY, G. SIMONET, J. FAURE et L. BRIMONT
Certification standard bodies in climate governance are assumed to function as independent third parties agencies in transactions, providing trust and transparency to ensure that the calculation of carbon credits is reliable. This article investigates the validity of this assumption for the voluntary forest...
9 years 6 months ago
Im Rahmen des Seminars zur Waldpolitik WS 2014 an der BOKU (in Wien) konnte ich mit Studenten das klimapolitische Instrument "REDD" diskutieren.
Hier finden Sie die Präsentation dazu...
Zusammefassend kann folgendes gesagt werden:
„Primary REDD concepts and principles are fundamentally flawed“
Lösungsansätze basieren teilweise auf falschen Tatsachen
REDD wird instrumentalisiert zur Realisierung von Partikularinteressen
Eigentumsrechte am Wald wurden völlig außer Acht gelassen
Isolierte Betrachtung des Problems – Stichwort „direct/indirect drivers“ (deshalb wird seit DURBAN vom „...
11 years 7 months ago
Latest News as of August 2013:
"Government shelves plan to sell Coillte harvesting rights" -
"The sale of the harvesting rights for the country’s State-owned forests has been abandoned. Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said the Government will instead focus on creating a new company — merging Coillte and Bord na Móna — to develop commercial bio-energy and foerestry interests. The minister said the decision to stall the sale of about one million acres of trees was based on concerns for jobs, public access and financial losses..."
Well, to put important things first...
I am sorry for...
11 years 11 months ago
The actual causes of deforestation -- above all, the already unsustainable demand agricultural products in the North -- were considered a far lower priority in Doha than carbon market-related accounting. Nonetheless, some governments, especially those of the UK and Norway, paid at least lip service to them. A Synthesis Report (PDF) financed by those two governments was released at Doha.
The main conclusions of that report are as follows:
Proximate or direct drivers of deforestation and forest degradation are human activities and actions that directly impact forest cover and result in loss of...
11 years 11 months ago
An article of Aljazeera - the topic says everything...
You're buying an airplane ticket online. Scroll to the bottom of the website, and there's an option to "buy carbon credits" to "offset" the climate change-inducing emissions you are about to produce during your flight.
It sounds like an attractive, market-based way to appease your environmental conscience - and quite affordably, too. But what are you actually buying? And how much - if any - difference can it really make in the fight against global warming?
In effect, you're paying someone else to exercise carbon emission restraint. It may...
11 years 11 months ago
Sustain2Green:
REDD Text Limps Out Of Doha – Healthy, Homeless, And Broke
REDD Text Limps Out Of Doha – Healthy, Homeless, And Broke
Author: Steve Zwick
UPDATE: As of 22:00 local time, high-level talks are continuing but no changes are expected to the REDD text. We will provide a more comprehensive wrap Sunday night or Monday morning. Please check back then.
7 December 2012 | Doha | Qatar | High-level climate talks continue here and may run until Monday, but negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) appear to have wrapped up for the...
12 years 3 weeks ago
"A guide to raise funds to save forests" - a brand new publication (October 2012) by "The Global Canopy Program"
"As a non-partisan analysis, the Little Forest Finance Book does not favour one proposal over another. We do hope, however, that our work will aid understanding and encourage collaborative dialogue on this vitally important area of research."
On page 98 we can read the following interesting sentences:
"The extraction of wood comprises 4% of global GDP (Butler, 2012) and causes around two-thirds of tropical deforestation (Geist & Lambin, 2001). Wood is extracted for timber...
12 years 1 month ago
Ilona Jankovits - 320217- Msc Global Business and Stakeholder Management - The Different Colours of REDD
Money does not grow on trees. In the literal sense this is true, but that does mean that despite the lack of currency as foliage, trees do not have any value. However, in our current system we seem to have issues with internalizing this value. We create a trade-off between economic profits and maintaining our ecosystems. The costs and benefits of the services our ecosystems provide globally are not internalized in our economic system and therefore the main stakeholder spheres of market...
12 years 2 months ago
"Developed countries have vowed to help the developing world get up to speed on REDD, and many say they’re putting up billions towards the effort. Few, however, have actually followed through on their promises, and those who say they have aren’t doing a good job of proving it. The REDD+ Expenditures Tracking Project aims to change that."
There is a nice article at the Website of Ecosystem Marketplace from Kelli Barrett. I just start to cite the first paragraph - read further at there site:
"Developed nations have pledged more than $7.3 billion to help developing countries get up to speed on...
12 years 3 months ago
The Telegraph:
We're told, endlessly, that climate change will mean the end of the Amazon, of the tropical forests, and the Earth will lose its lungs. It appears that this is not wholly and completely true. Actually, an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is likely to lead to the growth of huge, new, tropical forests.
The report is in Nature and this is the important point:
Experimental studies have generally shown that plants do not show a large response to CO2 fertilization. “However, most of these studies were conducted in northern ecosystems or on commercially important species” explains...