14 Oct '12, 3pm

REDD Critic #REDD

CZEBINIAK: Sure. Greenpeace sent a team to investigate the REDD program in Chiapas to see whether or not its delivering on its claim of emissions reductions. And what we found is a significant lack of transparency in what is being promoted. Among other things, no baseline has been established, so we don’t know whether or not it’s achieving additional emissions reductions or whether it’s just business as usual. Since there’s no national applicable monitoring program, there’s no way to know whether it’s actually reducing deforestation, or whether it’s simply displacing deforestation to another part of the country.

Full article: http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-0...

Tweets

His arrest was a brutish travesty. Putin critic Kasparov cleared over Pussy Riot protest

His arrest was a brutish travesty. Putin critic...

straitstimes.com 09 Oct '12, 5am

(REUTERS) - Former world chess champion turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov was cleared on Oct. 5 of taking part in an un...