photo: Chany Crystal via flickr

Though support, both political and financial, for the UN REDD forest protection scheme has been growing, there’s also a growing opposition voice expressing the concern that, though keeping forests standing is a good thing, the REDD program could well run roughshod over the rights of indigenous people as international financiers, corporations and timber companies get involved. Mongabay points out that an alte…Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Doug Beckers via flickr.

No one doubts the critical importance of forests in preventing climate change, but with less than ten official negotiating days before the the COP15 climate talks, a number of sources are crying foul at the way talks about implementing REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program…Read the full story on TreeHugger