Carbon Offsetting & REDD+
NBS: New Era or False Dawn? – Webinar Q&A
How could a local community be helpful in preserving the flora especially of endangered species? Numerous research demonstrates how indigenous peoples and local communities are the best stewards of tropical forests. Their participation is crucial to preserving biodiversity. See for example:5 Maps Show How Important Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are to the Environment – … Read more
NBS: New era or false dawn? Webinar presentations
Part 2 of an RFUK & WRI joint webinar series exploring and debating Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change. Presentations from RFUK, APEM, CARE & RRI explore the real-world challenges of implementing NbS on the ground.
Use It AND Lose It – Industrial Logging and its Role in Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
New research demonstrates a clear link between the establishment of commercial logging operations and a cascade of deforestation. Investigating forest loss in DRC across 60 logging concessions and eight ‘control’ areas, the findings from this study show that the selective logging of high-value timber species is not a sustainable form of forest management, but rather … Read more
Upcoming: Webinar Series debating Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change
Rainforest Foundation UK and World Resources Institute are hosting a two-part webinar series and debate exploring the political ecology of Nature-Based Solutions Webinar series Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change: Reconciling the Good, the Bad and the Ugly May 10 and May 17, 2021 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT / 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM … Read more
RFUK supports civil society call for the immediate cancellation of three million hectares of illegal logging concessions in DRC
RFUK, Greenpeace and Congolese civil society groups are calling on the DRC Government to revoke three million hectares of illegal logging concessions or risk wrecking its image on the international climate stage. Last week it emerged that in June 2020 the Environment Minister Claude Nyamugabo had reallocated four logging titles covering 770,000 hectares to Groups … Read more
Research into Mai Ndombe REDD+ Programme Shows How Forest Carbon Offsets Fail to Reduce Deforestation and Come at a Human Cost
A new study published today by Action pour la promotion et protection des peoples et espèces menacées (APEM) and the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) finds that one of the world’s highest profile emissions reductions programmes is failing to uphold social safeguards, deliver local benefits, or prevent deforestation. The Mai Ndombe jurisdictional REDD+ programme in the … Read more
REDD-MINUS: The Rhetoric and Reality of the Mai Ndombe REDD+ Programme
A new study by Action pour la promotion et protection des peoples et espèces menacées (APEM) and the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) finds that one of the world’s highest profile emissions reductions programmes is failing to uphold social safeguards, deliver local benefits, or prevent deforestation.
The Green Climate Fund in the Congo Basin Rainforests – Good Money After Bad?
A report published by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) on the Green Climate Fund finds that one of the world’s largest climate adaptation and mitigation funds for developing countries may actually do more harm to tropical forests and people on the frontline of climate change unless it is reformed.
REDD and Rights in DRC: How Participatory Maps Can Inform the Mai-Ndombe Integrated REDD Programme
Forest tenure and resource mapping by local communities in Mai Ndombe is providing a highly detailed and comprehensive picture of customary claims and usages that are likely to extend across the entire province. The results, which authorised users can view on MappingForRights, have major implications for DRC’s flagship jurisdictional REDD+ programme, especially in terms of … Read more
Failing Forests: The World Bank’s flagship REDD+ programme ten years on
More than a dozen environmental NGOs have today written to the World Bank to call for the suspension of its flagship programme to reduce emissions from tropical deforestation and degradation (REDD+) on its tenth anniversary, expressing concern that the programme has not yet prevented a single gram of forest carbon from entering the atmosphere. The Forest … Read more