Comments on: REDD in the news: 17-24 October 2008 http://www.redd-monitor.org/2008/10/27/redd-in-the-news-17-24-october-2008/ Analysis, opinions, news and views about Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:25:44 +0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robin http://www.redd-monitor.org/2008/10/27/redd-in-the-news-17-24-october-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Robin Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:43:29 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=281#comment-14 There's something I don't understand here: in one of the articles we're told that rain forests can be protected for as little as $3.50 per hectare, but in another we're told by Andrew Mitchell that it's going to take masses of money, more even than has been spent on the recent global financial bail-out. Surely these can't both be true? Or is it the case that it will cost loads of money because, under Andrew Mitchell's plan, we're also going to have to enrich Canopy Capitalists such as himself? Am I not right in thinking that all of Canopy Capital's first rain forest money-spinning venture, Iwokrama in Guyana, is inhabited by indigenous people? And if it'll only cost $3.50 per hectare if we pay them to look after it, then why doesn't someone just do that? There’s something I don’t understand here: in one of the articles we’re told that rain forests can be protected for as little as $3.50 per hectare, but in another we’re told by Andrew Mitchell that it’s going to take masses of money, more even than has been spent on the recent global financial bail-out. Surely these can’t both be true?

Or is it the case that it will cost loads of money because, under Andrew Mitchell’s plan, we’re also going to have to enrich Canopy Capitalists such as himself? Am I not right in thinking that all of Canopy Capital’s first rain forest money-spinning venture, Iwokrama in Guyana, is inhabited by indigenous people? And if it’ll only cost $3.50 per hectare if we pay them to look after it, then why doesn’t someone just do that?

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