Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) and Friends of the Earth Australia put out a press release today strongly criticising an A$30 million Australia-Indonesia REDD project in Sumatra, which was announced last week. WALHI and PPJ (United Farmers of Jambi) have also produced a position paper on the project and REDD in Jambi By REDD-Monitor | 11th March 2010 WALHI and Friends of the Earth Australia are particularly critical of the carbon offsets that are fundamental to this sort of REDD proje... [Read Post]
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