RSS syndication http://www.carbontradewatch.org Mon, 21 May 2012 13:19:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/take-action/peoples-of-the-world-against-the-commodification-of-nature.html La Via Campesina calls on all the peasant organizations of the world and their allies to organize actions in the month of June We invite all the farmers and peasant organizations and their allies to organize mobilizations and actions throughout the world during the entire month of June, with particular emphasis on June 5, World Environment Day, showing our unity and strength against the false solutions and... Sun, 13 May 2012 16:47:52 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/articles/nothing-neutral-here-large-scale-biomass-subsidies-in-the-uk-and-the-role-of-the-eu-ets.html Earlier this month Brazilian pulp and paper giant Suzano Papel e Celulose gained approval for the world’s most advanced trial of genetically modified (GM) trees to meet the global demands of biomass energy expansion. The new report from Carbon Trade Watch, “Nothing Neutral Here: Large-scale biomass subsidies in the UK and the role of the EU ETS”, raises critical concerns over the UK’s unprecedented plans to... Sun, 13 May 2012 16:10:42 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/articles/no-more-evictions-indigenous-peoples-in-guatemala-in-defence-of-nature-lands-and-territories.html On March 27th 2012, several thousand people marched into the Guatemalan capital in solidarity with the struggles of the indigenous farmers and landless workers who had made the 214-kilometre, nine day journey along the highway from the town of Cobán on foot. The main objective of the Marcha indígena y campesina en defensa del agua y de la Madre Tierra, organized primarily by the Comité... Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:24:35 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/articles/winning-the-greenwashing-race-bp-sponsoring-the-2012-olympic-games.html April 16th marks the 100 day countdown to the start of the Olympics: 100 days for some of the world’s most disreputable corporations – like Rio Tinto, Dow and BP – to keep using the Olympics as a smokescreen for environmental and human rights abuses the world over. The list of Olympic Sponsors reads like a “rogues gallery” of some of the most controversial corporations in the world. It makes you... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:51:53 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/take-action/stop-land-grabbing-17-april-international-day-of-peasant-struggles.html We invite people and civil society organisations everywhere to support - by all human, media, legal, financial or popular means possible - all those who fight against land grabs and to put pressure on national governments and international institutions to fulfil their obligations towards the rights of people. We all have a duty to resist and to support the people who are fighting for their dignity! http://viacampesina.org/slide/17april/index.html (http://viacampesina.org/slide/17april/index.html) Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:03:22 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/articles/la-codicia-del-subsuelo-en-la-amazonia-ecuatoriana.html En Noviembre del año pasado logré por medio de unos colegas, y después de entregar copias de mi pasaporte, ficha médica, sellos y un pedido a través de una universidad local, obtener permiso para cruzar el territorio donde opera la petrolera española Repsol YPF en el Ecuador, el llamado Bloque 16. Emprendí entonces un viaje de ocho horas hacia la ciudad de Coca, provincia de... Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:57:52 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/take-action/argos-and-their-land-theft-strategy-in-montes-de-maria-another-reason-to-mobilize-on-march-6.html Bogota, Colombia, February 16, 2012. The National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) supports member of Congress and MOVICE member Ivan Cepeda's actions before the United Nations denouncing human rights violations and the theft of small farmers' lands in Montes de María, in the Carribean coast region of Colombia, by the company Cementos Argos S.A. These actions began late last year, when Cepeda delivered... Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:16:15 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/articles/what-is-the-kyoto-protocol-a-refresher-for-2012.html The Kyoto Protocol will complete its commitment period at the end of 2012, the same year RIO+20 will meet to hammer out another chapter of neoliberal green economics. But what was built from Kyoto and how will Kyoto continue? CTW has put together a short review outlining what the Kyoto Protocol is and what mechanisms will continue to function after 2012. This short review highlights Land... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:26:58 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/take-action/rio-20-la-via-campesina-rejects-redd.html La Vía Campesina Call to action Reclaiming our future: Rio +20 and Beyond On 20-22 June 2012, governments from around the world will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to commemorate 20 years of the Earth Summit , the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that first established a global agenda for sustainable development . During the 1992 summit, the Convention on Biological Diversity... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:00:27 +0100 http://www.carbontradewatch.org/take-action/call-for-building-and-mobilizing-for-peoples-assembly-at-rio-20.html We call organizations, Networks and movements in the struggle for Environmental Justice, against the greening of capitalism and mercantilization of life and in defence of common goods, to join this call and the process of building and mobilizing for the Peoples Assembly at Peoples Summit Turing Rio+20, between 15 and 23 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro. An assembly of peoples affected, oppressed and aware... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:45:10 +0100