The IFC freezes funding of oil palm

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has frozen new investments in oil palm projects and is reviewing all current oil palm projects. The IFC…

Indonesia’s mixed signals

Tbe Government of Indonesia’s REDD working group finally released their guidelines for the distribution of Indonesian forest carbon revenues.  The numbers vary by the forest being protected, but 70% for…

Building dams to save the environment

Environmental advocates, especially those of us who grew up in the dam ridden West, would never imagine that a dam can actually be a tool to protect a critically threatened…

Forest carbon credits: A solution for who?

In recent weeks a storm has been gathering over Papua New Guinea’s ‘Carbon Cowboys’.  Natasha Loder, science writer for the Economist, and Chris Lang of the REDD-Monitor have been leading…

RBC – Get out of the Tar Sands!!!

RBC is Canada’s largest bank and a premier sponsor of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. They’re also Canada’s largest financier of the Alberta Tar Sands – one of the most environmentally…