Comments on: Two new reports highlight the problems with REDD in the Congo Basin http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/12/10/two-new-reports-highlight-the-problems-with-redd-in-the-congo-basin/ news, views and analysis about reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dr. Nigel Miles http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/12/10/two-new-reports-highlight-the-problems-with-redd-in-the-congo-basin/#comment-12188 Dr. Nigel Miles Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:03:38 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3547#comment-12188 Dear Maya, At last some sense in the idea of a REDD mechanism which could work and you quite rightly promote the idea of education and the willingness of local communities to redirect their lives for their own improvement and empowerment. If you take a look at my SEEBif Initiative, which in an introduction into how local communities can serve themselves and be part of the control mechanism for a realistic REDD programme of their own control, for their own human goal development and be the greatest force for biodiversity maintenance and the permanence of evolution in the tropics and beyond, I will gladly send you a copy of my Initiative for your observation and continued assessment. At present the research is developing into a global SEEBif Initiative; one aspect of primary importance is to establish the distribution of local communities in all tropical forests and for the Community Elders/ Council to receive a copy in a language of their choice. We need to get the SEEBif Initiative message to every local community in the 69 nations of the world and for them to empower their rights and force change through education and rightful empowerment. At present UNEP are analysing the Initiative and taking directions for further research. Take care, Best wishes, Nigel Miles Dear Maya,
At last some sense in the idea of a REDD mechanism which could work and you quite rightly promote the idea of education and the willingness of local communities to redirect their lives for their own improvement and empowerment.
If you take a look at my SEEBif Initiative, which in an introduction into how local communities can serve themselves and be part of the control mechanism for a realistic REDD programme of their own control, for their own human goal development and be the greatest force for biodiversity maintenance and the permanence of evolution in the tropics and beyond, I will gladly send you a copy of my Initiative for your observation and continued assessment.
At present the research is developing into a global SEEBif Initiative; one aspect of primary importance is to establish the distribution of local communities in all tropical forests and for the Community Elders/ Council to receive a copy in a language of their choice. We need to get the SEEBif Initiative message to every local community in the 69 nations of the world and for them to empower their rights and force change through education and rightful empowerment.
At present UNEP are analysing the Initiative and taking directions for further research.
Take care,
Best wishes,
Nigel Miles

]]> By: Maya Aviav http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/12/10/two-new-reports-highlight-the-problems-with-redd-in-the-congo-basin/#comment-9826 Maya Aviav Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:05:51 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3547#comment-9826 I am the EVP of a company, AAEG, involved in addressing the issues you have mentioned in your article. We have been working with the DRC government to implement REDD projects that include helping the local communities, preserving biodiversity and preservation of forests. It is very difficult to manage the potential corruption in DRC, you are right, but there are ways to handle it. World Bank and the international community in many ways do not contribute in helping the situation in Africa.We are a private group that is investing private money to establish, with an international satellite imaging and 3d imaging through LIDAR technology, a platform for implementing REDD projects under the strictest of rules. Once the Africans, including DRC, are convinced that there will be enough revenues from REDD to develop their countries while helping the local communities living of the forest by supplying them alternative activity that will avoid them degrading the forest, then there is the hope to achieve something. As of today, education and information is needed towards the African nations, and they are getting all but information and education. Whatever funds are given to COMIFAC by the international communities, is only used to cover the travel expenses of those working for COMIFAC, and used to organize meetings around the world and useless conventions. But from my African experience, i remain persuaded that the Africans have a will to change the way things are today and are more and more conscious of the contribution they can bring to the world and in global warming. It is just a question of being fair with them, and to not make them feel that they are under the eternal "control" of the western world.The problem today is that they should not have been left out of the benefits of Kyoto, ( also by their own fault), and now they are greedy, having realized the billions involved in emission reductions around the globe. I am the EVP of a company, AAEG, involved in addressing the issues you have mentioned in your article. We have been working with the DRC government to implement REDD projects that include helping the local communities, preserving biodiversity and preservation of forests. It is very difficult to manage the potential corruption in DRC, you are right, but there are ways to handle it. World Bank and the international community in many ways do not contribute in helping the situation in Africa.We are a private group that is investing private money to establish, with an international satellite imaging and 3d imaging through LIDAR technology, a platform for implementing REDD projects under the strictest of rules. Once the Africans, including DRC, are convinced that there will be enough revenues from REDD to develop their countries while helping the local communities living of the forest by supplying them alternative activity that will avoid them degrading the forest, then there is the hope to achieve something. As of today, education and information is needed towards the African nations, and they are getting all but information and education. Whatever funds are given to COMIFAC by the international communities, is only used to cover the travel expenses of those working for COMIFAC, and used to organize meetings around the world and useless conventions. But from my African experience, i remain persuaded that the Africans have a will to change the way things are today and are more and more conscious of the contribution they can bring to the world and in global warming. It is just a question of being fair with them, and to not make them feel that they are under the eternal “control” of the western world.The problem today is that they should not have been left out of the benefits of Kyoto, ( also by their own fault), and now they are greedy, having realized the billions involved in emission reductions around the globe.

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