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		<title>Carbon Planet moves into Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/06/09/carbon-planet-moves-into-malaysia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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Two press releases about Malaysia. The first is from the Bruno Manser Fund, publicising a video that shows how Najib Razak, Malaysia&#8217;s prime minister, was involved in vote buying for Robert Lau, the son of a timber tycoon. The second is from Carbon Planet, the Australian carbon trading company that got its fingers burnt in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s big REDD carbon scam</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/05/13/australias-big-redd-carbon-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/05/13/australias-big-redd-carbon-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 05:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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The description of Australia as &#8220;the lucky country&#8221; comes from a 1964 book by Donald Horne. The final chapter starts with the words, &#8220;Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck.&#8221; It is a particularly appropriate way to describe how Australia has benefited from the international climate negotiations.
Horne&#8217;s point was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REDD project in Sumatra slammed by Friends of the Earth Indonesia and Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/03/11/redd-project-in-sumatra-slammed-by-friends-of-the-earth-indonesia-and-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>REDD-Monitor</dc:creator>
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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.
WALHI and Friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent videos about carbon cowboys and REDD in Papua New Guinea</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/01/04/recent-videos-about-carbon-cowboys-and-redd-in-papua-new-guinea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/01/04/recent-videos-about-carbon-cowboys-and-redd-in-papua-new-guinea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s depressing&#8221;, Kevin Conrad told Associated Press, commenting on what happened (or didn&#8217;t) in Copenhagen. &#8220;It means I&#8217;ve got to spend another year &#8230; coming to meetings and talking about the same things.&#8221; Conrad would probably be even more depressed had he been asked to comment on what is happening in Papua New Guinea. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaked &#8220;Danish Text&#8221; on REDD</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/12/09/leaked-danish-text-on-redd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/12/09/leaked-danish-text-on-redd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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The Guardian reports that after only two days, &#8220;The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray.&#8221; The problem is a leaked document that Denmark hoped that world leaders would sign at the end of next week. The text &#8220;hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN&#8217;s role in all future climate change negotiations,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>New report exposes Australia&#8217;s REDD offsets scam</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/29/new-report-exposes-australias-redd-offsets-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/29/new-report-exposes-australias-redd-offsets-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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The Australian government is one of the most enthusiastic promoters of using market mechanisms to finance REDD. The reason? Australia wants REDD to create a loophole in any climate deal large enough to allow emissions to continue in Australia. A new report by Friends of the Earth Australia and Aid/Watch exposes the flaws in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REDD concerns deepen in Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/10/06/redd-concerns-deepen-in-indonesia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/10/06/redd-concerns-deepen-in-indonesia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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In its most recent newsletter, Down to Earth outlines the increasing concerns about the way REDD is developing in Indonesia, focussing on the role of the World Bank and the Australian government. The World Bank is pushing ahead with its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in Indonesia in spite of a &#8220;storm of criticism from civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More questions than answers on carbon trading in PNG</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/09/11/more-questions-than-answers-on-carbon-trading-in-png/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/09/11/more-questions-than-answers-on-carbon-trading-in-png/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Credits]]></category>
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Papua New Guinea&#8217;s forest carbon trading fiasco is back in the news. The focus is on Kirk Roberts, pictured right, his company Nupan (PNG) Trading Limited and an Australian carbon trading firm, Carbon Planet. &#8220;It&#8217;s no secret that I am one of the most important foreigners in PNG,&#8221; Roberts says. But his opponents have called [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Carbon Planet&#8217;s Dave Sag on carbon trading in PNG</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/07/28/carbon-planets-dave-sag-on-carbon-trading-in-png/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/07/28/carbon-planets-dave-sag-on-carbon-trading-in-png/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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A fascinating discussion is going on at &#8220;the Masalai blog&#8221; about carbon trading in Papua New Guinea. It is particularly interesting because Dave Sag, co-founder and Executive Director of Carbon Planet has answered some of the accusations against his company. 
Sag is a software programmer, who has found himself &#8220;at the forefront of Internet software [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Papua New Guinea Australia Forest Carbon Partnership: 10 questions for Penny Wong</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/07/03/papua-new-guinea-australia-forest-carbon-partnership-10-questions-for-penny-wong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/07/03/papua-new-guinea-australia-forest-carbon-partnership-10-questions-for-penny-wong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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Penny Wong is Australia&#8217;s Minister for Climate Change and Water. 
Ilya Gridneff is a journalist working for the Australian Associated Press in Papua New Guinea. 
Recently, Gridneff sent 10 questions to Wong asking about Australia&#8217;s funding to Papua New Guinea regarding climate change. Given that PNG is currently embroiled in a scandal over the issuance [...]]]></description>
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