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		<title>Smoke and Mirrors: A critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A new report from FERN and the Forest Peoples Programme concludes that the safeguards put in place by the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership (FCPF) are inadequate. The report looks at eight Readiness Preparation Proposals (R-PPs) submitted to the FCPF and finds that FCPF safeguards are not clear and do not conform to the ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REDD in the Congo &#8211; new report from World Rainforest Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The forests in the Congo Basin, the second largest area of tropical forest in the world, are receiving increasing interest. Enormous amounts of carbon are stored in these forests, meaning that REDD proponents are increasingly looking at these forests to "offset" continued pollution in the rich countries. This new short report from World Rainforest ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shift2Neutral&#8217;s big REDD deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Australian carbon trading company Shift2Neutral aims to become "the leading neutraliser of carbon emissions in the world". The company appeared to come closer realising its aim this week when Reuters reported that Shift2Neutral "signed a deal aimed at protecting tropical forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as boosting renewable energy ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two new reports highlight the problems with REDD in the Congo Basin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Congo Basin forest is the second largest in the world after the Amazon. It accounts for one quarter of the world's remaining tropical forest and covers an area of 1.8 million square kilometres. Clearly, whatever comes out of Copenhagen on REDD has to work in the Congo Basin. Two new reports take a ... [...]]]></description>
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