BRUCE RICH | AUTHOR | ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER - Tags | expert on public international finance and the environment

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The REDD+ Program is in Denial About the Intractable Problem of Governance

The REDD+ Program is in Denial About the Intractable Problem of Governance

Rich describes carbon markets as the “financial cargo cult that had driven much of the early enthusiasm for REDD+.” REDD national plans often tended to focus on the technical compl...
Web Governance: Don’t Be Evil

Web Governance: Don’t Be Evil

According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the internet has already become the dominant factor in the illegal global trade in protected species. No species is too obsc...
Brazil's Forest: Governance, Indian Reserves, and Narco-Deforestation

Brazil's Forest: Governance, Indian Reserves, and Narco-Deforestation

In 2022 Brazil's President Bolsonaro, self styled "Tropical Trump," promoted polices leading to 43 percent of world tropical forest loss that year. His successor, Luiz Lula de Silv...