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Wally Menne: A Lion Among Men

Oct 27, 2017 | Bioeconomy, Bioenergy, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, No GE Trees News, Protests & Resistance, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, UN Climate COPs, Uncategorized

The Loss of a Giant My partner Orin Langelle and I were shocked and saddened this morning to learn of the death of friend and colleague Wally Menne who passed away on Thursday 26 October. We had known Wally for many years and his loss was like a dagger. I had met...

Wally Menne

Mar 25, 2014

(in memoriam)Timberwatch CoalitionProject CoordinatorMenne is project coordinator for Timberwatch, an organization that monitors the impacts of the timber industry. As a specialist consultant at the Indigenous Plant Network (Plantnet), Menne also gives advice on the...

The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading

Jan 22, 2021 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Rainforest, REDD, Social Media News

Note: Global Justice Ecology Project was part of the group that co-founded the Durban Group in 2004. In his piece linked below, Chris Lang of REDD-Monitor who was present at the meeting, explains, “In October 2004, about 20 climate and environmental activists...

Environmentalists Denounce UN’s Bioenergy Themed International Day of Forests

Mar 20, 2017 | Bioenergy, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Paraguay, Social Media News, Tree Plantations

March 20, 2017: The UNFAO’s [1] “Forests and Energy” theme for this year’s International Day of Forests on March 21 [2] misleadingly promotes bioenergy from burning wood from forests as well as from monoculture tree plantations as “sustainable” energy sources. This...

NGOs call for the Swedish Energy Agency to cancel carbon Credit Purchase from Green Resources’ Monoculture Plantations in Uganda

Mar 11, 2016 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Forests, Protests & Resistance, REDD, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, UN Climate COPs

By Chris Lang 11 March 2016 Courtesy of Redd-Monitor.org Yesterday, a group of NGOs wrote to the Swedish Energy Agency calling for the Agency to cancel its contract to buy carbon credits from Green Resources’ plantations in Uganda. Green Resources is a Norwegian...