“In reality there is no mechanism to channel money to village level participants and REDD+ nearly always relies on exclusion of people from forests. The people who mostly benefit from it are investors, carbon brokers, governments, consultants and NGOs.”
“If REDD+ could actually provide income to small farmers and local conservationists and allow them to use lands already cleared and still give them some control over forests then it would be fantastic—and this is what it [REDD+] claims,” explained Frewer.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered provincial authorities throughout the Kingdom to use temporarily closed schools as makeshift hospitals and has told relevant officials to prepare facilities there for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.
As today Sweden hits a record of over 2,000 Covid19 cases in total, I have earlier documented my life in Kalmar in the below video.
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Tourism which generates 1 in every 10 jobs globally is getting badly disturbed. The pandemic forces governments and individuals to stay home which works in an opposite direction of tourism. Would virtual tourism be able to exploit such chaos to prosper?
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Prime Minister Hun Sen has recommended national and provincial level authorities keep Battambang town as a place of heritage and work to maintain the ancient houses and bridges that are found there.
Equity markets collapsed yesterday as the rapidly spreading COVID-19 fans fears for the global economy, while a crash in oil prices added to the panic with energy firms taking a hammering and wiping hundreds of billions off valuations. https://t.co/QHcx5rALB4