Democratic Republic of Congo is auctioning 30 oil and gas exploration blocks. RedemptionDAO wants to buy one to save the rainforest.
Category: DR Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo threatens to release its carbon bomb
Democratic Republic of Congo is planning to release a carbon bomb by auctioning 30 oil and gas blocks overlapping rainforests and peatlands.
After 11 years, many villagers wonder what they get from Wildlife Works Carbon’s Mai Ndombe REDD project
Wildlife Works Carbon’s Mai Ndombe project has left many villagers wondering when or if they will ever benefit from the project.
Response from Steve Zwick, Verra: “Verra will ask Kanaka Management Systems to cease and desist any actions that may mislead communities into thinking that Verra has not already rejected the project”
By Chris Lang An Indian company called Kanaka Management Systems has plans to set up a REDD project covering an area of more than 72 million hectares in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In April 2022, NGOs working in DRC wrote to DRC’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development raising…
Response from Kanaka Management Services: “Please do not conduct legal trail or castigate REDD+ project developers on the website by writing text which shows the project developer in bad light”
By Chris Lang Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about Kanaka Management Services’ REDD project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The post featured a letter from a group of NGOs working in the country to Eva Bazaiba, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development. The letter requests Bazaiba’s immediate intervention…