Last week REDD-Monitor posted a press release from The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD+ and for Life demanding a moratorium on REDD. As a commentator pointed out, that was not the only press release from indigenous peoples at the UN climate negotiations in Durban. The Indigenous Caucus put out ... [...]

At the beginning of the UN climate negotiations in Durban (COP17), FERN published a short report looking at carbon markets as a means of financing REDD. The briefing, which was signed on to by 28 organisations explains why carbon markets will not deliver for southern governments, forests and people. The briefing can be downloaded here. ... [...]

"The UN climate negotiation is not about saving the climate, it is about privatization of forests, agriculture and the air,” Berenice Sanchez of the Mesoamerica Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network says in a press release earlier this week. The press release came from The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD+ and for ... [...]

"The Endless Algebra of Climate Markets", is the title of a recent paper by Larry Lohmann of the UK-based NGO the Corner House. That's him on the left holding up an "I love emissions trading", T-shirt that Fortis Bank (now part of BNP Paribas) was handing out at a UN climate conference. Lohmann has written ... [...]

In March 2011, a consulting firm called The Munden Project put out a report about forest carbon markets. The report concluded that carbon trading is "unworkable as currently constructed". In October 2011, Lou Munden of The Munden Project (TMP) spoke at an event organised by the Rights and Resources Initiative, the Forest Peoples Programme ... [...]