Development Today: Having monitored global REDD initiatives since 2008, writer and environmental activist Chris Lang questions whether Norways aid-financed climate forest initiative - the largest in the world - has contributed to reducing rates of deforestation. In an opinion article in this issue of Development Today, Lang cites new research from the University of Maryland, showing that deforestation in Indonesia is on the rise. There are a number of tentative signs of progress, but with the exception of a new...