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Koert Koert van van Mensvoort Mensvoort
-------- Original Message -------Subject: Re: [Paralelo] Following up on Paralelo... Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 22:29:42 +0100 From: Bronac Ferran To: paralelo@listcultures.org
HI Koert Good to hear and glad you have found time to follow up. My apologies if you already knew this and I haven’t read your interesting post carefully enough - the idea of compensating countries for not cutting down their trees (etc) has been around for a year or so and got quite a lot of press coverage in 2008. http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/globalissues/climate_change/climate_solutions/deforestation_emissions.html I think this may relate to your proposal? But maybe it is different Kind regards, Bronac -------- Original Message -------Subject: Re: [Paralelo] Following up on Paralelo... Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 14:32:01 +0200 From: Koert van Mensvoort To: Bronac Ferran CC: paralelo@listcultures.org
Thanks Bronac, Good read! Indeed, I knew this was going on, but I still have to learn a lot more... The idea of trading forest credits for carbon credits sounds rather awkward. On the other 66 66
hand it is understandable that this will happen, once you drag things in the economic domain. I do wonder why so many governments are creating these abstract schemes, which aren’t communicated to the people at large. Injecting some artistic sensibilities and visualisations might help, and that is what interests me in the idea of the ECO as a separate currency, with its own value and visualisation.
blog/2009/mar/19/carbon-trading-conference-copenhagen-ngos-industry-businesspermits
From: Gisela Domschke To: Koert van Mensvoort CC: paralelo@listcultures.org
-------- Original Message -------Subject: Re: [Paralelo] Following up on Paralelo... Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:10:03 +0100 From: Katherine E. Bash <abrisamento@katherinebash.com>
Hi All, Koert
For instance, this excerpt from the article interested me a lot as an ECO currency might play positive catalyzing role here:
Greetings All and thank you to Koert and Bronac,
“Brazil has already established an alternative to forest offsets: an international fund for the protection of the Amazon, to which Norway has pledged 1 billion dollars through 2015. Norway will donate tranches of the money every year, but only if Brazil shows deforestation was reduced in the previous year. Poor families in Brazil can apply for 1,500 dollars per year to restore and protect forest that they own.”
I am not sure how the Ecuadorian proposal of raising funds for untapped oil by issuing carbon emission bonds through the European Trading System relates to the REDD but I heard of some recent developments having to do with the UN. These seem like necessary steps to pass through as we continue to re-evaluate/restructure our current system and perhaps develop a separate currency altogether.
best, Koert
A couple of brief links. I am looking for more recent ones and its status.
p.s. Prior to Paralelo, Marcus already submitted some links on carbon markets, which are good to re-read at in this context:
http://www.wri.org/stories/2009/01/ecuador-proposes-leaving-oil-untapped-protectforests-and-people
Are carbon traders lining their pockets or saving the world? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ blog/2009/mar/13/carbon-trading-climatechange
http://www.liveyasuni.org/
Worlds of business and activism collide at carbon trading conference http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/
Best wishes, Katherine -------- Original Message -------Subject: Re: [Paralelo] Following up on Paralelo... Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 06:52:11 +0100
On the subject of the Amazon fund: 06.05.09 Norway Ambassador Mrs. Turid Bertelsen Rodrigues Eusébio confirmed during her visit to Brasil that Norway will go ahead with the programme of investing in sustainable development in the Amazônia. The Ambassador said the government can start designing projects to be funded by Fundo Amazônia, which has been managed by the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES). Her goal was to visit all the Amazon states to hear from the local communities about their problems and expectations. http://amazonianamidia.blogspot. com/2009/05/agencia-brasil-noruega-teminteresse-em.html Best wishes Gisela -------- Original Message -------Subject: Re: [Paralelo] Following up on Paralelo... Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:09:06 +0200 From: Esther Polak To: paralelo@listcultures.org
Dear All In reaction of Koert’s post: At the moment I just finished a paper that 67