Finally, after more than 4 years of work, the main paper from my PhD thesis is out today in Nature Geoscience! We mapped the world’s largest tropical peatland, in the Congo Basin. A huge intact carbon store, BUT under direct threat from oil exploration nature.com/articles/s4156…

Great overview by John C. Cannon for Mongabay of our new Nature Geoscience study mapping peatlands in the Congo Basin, and the threat that they face from oil drilling news.mongabay.com/2022/07/in-con…

The #Congo #DRC suffers Natural Resource Curse Oil money plays dirty, #refi play different game and today in a flash they meet with RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴) - a novel response to age-old problem Congo oil blocks auction draws warnings of environmental catastrophe reuters.com/business/energ…

Greenpeace: RT Remy Zahiga: Stop auctioning off DRC’s biodiversity for oil and gas! #NoNewOilBlocks #FossilFreeDRC

In DeFi there's a "winner take all” mentality. That is not as prevalent in #ReFi. Because, well, that's not on the table for 🌎 🧵This week, ReFi banned together across dozens of DAOs, protocols, and startups this week to build @RedemtionDAO x.com/refidaoist/sta…

@RebeccaRachmany ReFi DAO 🪩 RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴) The folks at dClimate are finalizing a detailed analysis of the value of each parcel to inform the bid strategy. I’m about to publish an interview with Remy Zahiga one of the lead organizers on the ground with more info on the local coordination.

Over the last few days, the #ReFi community has spun up RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴), a DAO organized specifically to deal with this issue. (I’ve been assisting them where I can, and will continue to do so). 29/ x.com/RedemptionDAO

#ReFi Weekly Rewind! Crypto News from the Final Week of July 2022 in #RegenerativeFinance - All eyes on RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴) 👀, PLUS a week full of news 🗞️ and updates 📢 from the ReFi world! 🧵👇🏼

Following the fascinating work of RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴) in the #Congo where ministers are rallying against global "hypocrisy" re. the #carbon sink auction.. ..raises interesting questions re. financing #NetZero efforts & the role of developing vs developed markets - where to begin?

Another week of SlaptainShwirv and I discussing everything around #ReFi, carbon, crypto, and macro in #ThisWeekInReFi. Talking 🎉RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴), @solidworlddao Vlinder partnership, huge looming alt-registry REDD+ issuance, Regen Network ledger upgrade, and more!

natural wealth > oil wealth ecological wealth > oil wealth community wealth > oil wealth

Civil society has open petitions: - To the African Union change.org/p/petition-to-… - To the President of #DRC greenpeace.org/africa/en/pres… Whilst RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴) have set up a crowdfunding mission to buy up the concessions to prevent exploration (6/n)

Make the planet great again 🌿

The work of Bart Crezee is incredibly valuable in mapping & quantifying the scope of peatland in the Congo Basin. We have 200+ people from around the globe building off this research & looking at alternatives to oil development. If you research & GIS skills, come say hi!

I can think of few things as irresponsible or immoral as the sentiment "the children will solve the climate emergency." Nope. Right here, right now people.

Dear RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴), you must’ve done something right… “DR Congo opens oil and gas auction to carbon credit and crypto groups.” ft.com/content/b10a31…

RedemptionDAO (🌴,🌴) **** UPDATE **** At first, it appeared that the auction was going to be done & dusted by July 29th - hence the initial urgency. Subsequently, we discovered the meeting was actually a preliminary scoping of bidding participants. We now have until Q1 2023 to submit a legal bid.