Fellow Story
Andrea Johnson presented in Durban about illegal logging impacts
One excerpt:
REDD, the mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, has been one of the areas in which considerable progress has been made over the past two years. In 2010 alone, Norway committed US$21.7m of bilateral funds to Indonesia for forest protection, and at COP16 in Cancun, parties officially agreed to establish the REDD+ mechanism.
Today at COP17, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Global Witness gave delegates an insight into how these funds and agreements were translating into progress on the ground.
Both agencies claim that corruption is affecting forest protection and monitoring activities on a grand scale.
