Open Letter to the CBD - Call for signaturesFriday, 27 January 2012 | Acción Ecológica
Acción Ecológica is launching a call to collect signatures for the following letter, which will be presented to the participants in the Global Dialogue Seminar on Scaling Up Finance for Biodiversity, co-hosted by the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Governments of...
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Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratoria on REDD+Tuesday, 13 December 2011 | Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life
Indigenous leaders returning from Durban, South Africa condemn the fiasco of the United Nations climate change talks and demand a moratorium on a forest carbon offset scheme called REDD+ which they say threatens the future of humanity and Indigenous Peoples’ very survival. During the UN...
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Indigenous Peoples Call for a Moratorium on REDD+ Tuesday, 06 December 2011 | Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life
Berenice Sanchez, MesoAmerican Indigenous Womens BioDiversity Network, Mexico, said, “The supposed safeguards are voluntary, weak and hidden in the Annex. REDD+-type projects are already violating Indigenous Peoples’ rights throughout the world. We are here to demand an immediate...
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No REDD popular education blog!Thursday, 01 December 2011 | Carbon Trade Watch and Indigenous Environmental Network
Some say that the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme could help communities who rely on the forests while others see REDD+ as paving the way for land grabs around the world which threaten the livelihoods and cultures of communities and the forests....
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Mausam... talking climate in public spaceSunday, 27 November 2011 | Mausam
Here's the third issue of Mausam, containing a full report on India's 'first' REDD+ project by Soumitra Ghosh:
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It has taken quite a long time than we had expected to bring out this edition of Mausam...talking climate in public space and...
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Just Released! No REDD Papers: Vol. 1Thursday, 24 November 2011 | No REDD Platform
—Nnimmo Bassey, Alternative Nobel Prize Laureate, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Chair of Friends of the Earth International and poet
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Beating Goliath: A resource for corporate campaignersThursday, 24 November 2011 | the democracy center
Published in October 2011, ‘Beating Goliath’ gathers case studies from previous successful campaigns against corporations, looking at how they won and what we can learn from them. It provides links to many useful resources for activists, and highlights current campaigns engaged in...
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Acre Letter - against REDD and the commodification of natureThursday, 03 November 2011 |
Letter from the State of Acre
In defence of life and the integrity of the peoples and their territories against REDD and the commodification of nature
We gathered in Rio Branco, in the State of Acre, on 3-7 October 2011 for the workshop “Serviços Ambientais, REDD e Fundos...
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Chicagoans demand coal plants' regulationThursday, 03 November 2011 | Karen Looney
On September 24, over 100 Chicagoans took to the streets, travelling on bicycle and foot in the Roll Beyond Coal rally. Participants rode bikes from Daley Plaza down to a park near Fisk coal plant in Pilsen. Here they joined others in a neighborhood march demanding clean, renewable energy...
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Key Arguments Against Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+)Monday, 20 June 2011 | CTW, GJEP and IEN
No to REDD+! REDD+ is still being negotiated. There are many who defend REDD+ for valuing ecosystems services; there are others who see it as the only way to protect forests and stabilize the climate. But whatever form REDD+ takes, even if it includes Human Rights safeguards, it will...
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Caught in the cross-hairs: how industry lobbyists are gunning for EU climate targetsMonday, 20 June 2011 | Carbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
The second initiative is the Roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050 (hereafter “Roadmap”), which has been proposed by the European Commission, and which will be discussed on 21 June at the inter-ministerial Environment Council. The Roadmap...
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Some Key REDD+ PlayersFriday, 17 June 2011 | Carbon Trade Watch
REDD+ rewards polluters with carbon credits, allowing them to elude their responsibility to reduce emissions at source. There are billions of dollars at stake and no real obligation to respect human or collective rights – the so-called “safeguards” mentioned in the negotiating...
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More is less: a case against sectoral carbon marketsFriday, 17 June 2011 | Oscar Reyes
The global carbon market is in crisis. Proposed emissions trading schemes in the USA, Japan and Canada have stalled indefinitely; new markets in Australia and South Korea face significant delays; and climate justice activists have successfully blocked the start of a planned scheme in...
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World Bank Partnership for Market Readiness begins push for new carbon marketsFriday, 17 June 2011 | Oscar Reyes
The World Bank is busily encouraging “middle income” countries to create new carbon trading schemes, as we reported in our last newsletter. It hopes that this will lead to a “scaling up” of carbon markets and has created a new Fund, the “Partnership for Market...
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EU Emissions Trading System: failing at the third attemptThursday, 07 April 2011 | Carbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
Emissions trading is the European Union’s flagship measure for tackling climate change, and it is failing badly. In theory it provides a cheap and efficient means to limit greenhouse gas reductions within an ever-tightening cap, but in practice it has rewarded major polluters with...
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Chiapas: REDD Alert - Urgent Action NeededWednesday, 06 April 2011 | Global Justice Ecology Project
Medical Services in Amador Hernández, Chiapas Withdrawn in Advance of REDD+
"For the indigenous peoples, who have freely and bravely decided to walk our own destiny on a different path from that of the political regime and the economic system that turns...
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Fraud and scams in the EU Emissions Trading SystemWednesday, 06 April 2011 | Tamra Gilbertson
As new cap and trade markets emerge on the global horizon, the world looks to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for insight and lessons learned. This form of free-market environmentalism is presented as the 'only game in town' for those seeking action on climate change.
With a host of...
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Africa’s pollution and land grab threat from UN carbon marketTuesday, 15 March 2011 | The Gaia Foundation, Carbon Trade Watch and Timberwatch
The United Nation’s carbon offset mechanism is rewarding pollution, and could lead to a land grab for industrial biofuels, tree plantations, genetically modified crops and biochar projects in Africa
A new briefing, titled “The CDM in Africa: marketing a new land...
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International Women’s Day actionsSaturday, 05 March 2011 | Women for Climate Justice Network
Climate change, one of most serious problems facing the world today, will have disastrous consequences for everyone, and especially for women. What is most tragic is that women will also suffer especially from the false solutions for climate change that are being negotiated...
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Outcomes of REDD+ in Cancun: a flawed plan for the world's remaining forestsThursday, 20 January 2011 | Tamra Gilbertson
Within the year between the UN Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009 and the Cancún negotiations in 2010, the framework of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanism advanced from a bracketed text to a nearly established architecture depicting the...
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