Plantar Project:

Plantar sinks the World Bank's rhetoric Joint CDM Watch and SinksWatch Briefing exposing how the World Bank's carbon funds are designed to subsidise unsustainable industrial monoculture tree plantations with their negative environmental and social impacts and unverifiable benefits for the climate.

SinksWatch submission to the Forest Stewardship Council regarding the Plantar certificate.

Nothing Prevents FSC Certification? WRM reply to the renewal of Plantar's Forest Stewardship Council Certificate. December 2003

Global Forest Coalition: Plantar's directors threaten massive lay-offs in Brazil if critics are not muzzled. Press Release 11 December 2003

Risky Business: How Canada is Avoiding Kyoto Action With Controversial Projects in Developing Countries. Risky Business is a short background paper by the David Suzuki Foundation that describes how Canada is funding a controversial tree plantation in Brazil to get Kyoto credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, instead of cutting pollution at home.

WRM Evaluation report of V&M Florestal Ltda. and Plantar S.A. Reflorestamentos. The report presents a critical assessment of the FSC certified tree plantations operated by both companies. Both companies are also in the process of registring projects involving tree plantations for carbon creidts under the CDM. In the case of Plantar, a substantial part of the project involves credits for carbon sequestration (carbon sinks), and both projects claim credits for using charcoal produced from the tree plantations instead of coal for iron smeltering (fuel substitution). Report commissioned by the World Rainforest Movement. Brazil, November 2002. http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Brazil/fsc.html

CDM Watch Briefing on Plantar, the first carbon sink project seeking CDM registration. http://www.cdmwatch.org/plantar.html

World Bank Note on the Plantar Project in Portuguese and English. July 2003

World Bank Notice on the Plantar Project. August 2003

Plantar letter responding to the criticism voiced in the first Brazilian NGO letter. April 2003

Local Newspaper article on the Plantar controversy. April 2003