Author: Nick Oakes

The Green Climate Fund: Expectations and the Emerging Picture

Posted by Nick Oakes | Nov 8, 2011 | Adaptation, Capacity Building, Finance, Mitigation, REDD+, Technology |

In advance of COP 17, the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Transitional Committee (TC) have passed the Parties a report, recommending it “take note” of the report’s findings. It is worth analysing this report since it brings in to...

The increasing importance of the ‘patchwork’ approach for REDD

Posted by Nick Oakes | Oct 23, 2011 | Emissions Trading, Finance, REDD+ |

Last month, the second edition of State of the Forest Carbon Markets,was released. All in all, the report painted a positive picture for the forest carbon markets: the volumes, transaction value and average prices in 2010 were...

A shadow has cast over Indonesia’s flagship REDD project

Posted by Nick Oakes | Sep 27, 2011 | Indonesia, REDD+ |

Indonesia’s flagship Rimba Raya REDD project was registered this year under one of the Voluntary Carbon Standard’s REDD methodologies, aiming to preserve “91,215 hectares of tropical peat swamp forest,” equivalent to an...

Should the Green Climate Fund be Replaced?

Posted by Nick Oakes | Sep 8, 2011 | Adaptation, Finance, Mitigation, Politics |

One of the purported successes of the talks in Cancun last year was the creation of the Green...

Is forest carbon just another commodity?

Posted by Nick Oakes | Aug 23, 2011 | Emissions Trading, Finance, REDD+ |

As already discussed on Climatico, using REDD+ as a private sector offsetting mechanism runs the risk of creating perverse incentives, exposing land to market price volatility and causing supply-induced price suppression....