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Belo Monte: Brazil's damned democracy
20 May 2012
Belo Monte has generated widespread opposition, in Brazil and abroad. In fact, almost everyone agrees it's a bad idea. The project was resisted by local...
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West Papua's big palm oil plantations rip-off - EIA International
20 May 2012
An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners as little as US$0.65 per hectare for their forestland,...
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Inclusive green growth or extractive greenwashed decay?
20 May 2012
The debate over the Green Economy rages on next month in Rio de Janeiro, at the International Society for Ecological Economics meetings, the Cupulo dos...
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New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years - ProPublica
11 May 2012
A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, US, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the...
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Briefing about Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
10 May 2012
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, (BECCS) has recently gained attention in national and international high level discussions on climate, as a supposedly viable means...
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How climate change has got Worldwide Fund for Nature bamboozled
7 May 2012
Christopher Booker (Telegraph) 7:00PM BST 05 May 2012
WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species. What a strange body the...
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El mercado de CO 2 : negocio para las fábricas, ruina para el Estado |...
2 May 2012
El mercado de emisión de CO2, que comenzó a aplicarse realmente en 2008, ha resultado un enorme negocio para la industria pesada. Cementeras, azulejeras, ladrilleras...,...
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Analysis: Permit glut points to new EU carbon policy tool
2 May 2012
Any one-off European Union intervention to clear the massive glut of permits now clogging its emissions trading scheme is likely to lead to a 'central...
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Hundreds of NGO's slam WWF for "greenwashing"
2 May 2012
Organizations across continents say the WWF did not involve stakeholders in shrimp farming standards development. Hundreds of NGOs in Asia, Latin America, Africa, North America...
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El Caso Chiapas: la Selva Lacandona al mejor postor
Producido por Otros Mundos AC/Amigos de la Tierra México
Con el apoyo de Amigos de la Tierra Internacional, Fundación Siemenp...
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New Video Reveals Global Resistance to Forest-Carbon Projects and Documents Critical Perspectives on REDD
A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
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This critical review of carbon trading in Africa includes analyses of the context and trends in the carbon market in Africa; offset projects in Uganda, Ethiopia and South Africa; and carbon finance ...
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"Para los pueblos indígenas que libre y valientemente han decidido caminar su destino en camino distinto al del régimen político y sistema económico que todo vuelve ...
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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 dest...
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El cambio climático, uno de los problemas más graves que enfrenta la humanidad, tendrá consecuencias desastrosas para todos, y en especial para las mujeres. Lo trágico es...
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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 espe...
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REDD+, en su actual diseño, contribuirá a una apropiación global de tierras de las comunidades y Pueblos Indígenas que afectará particularmente a las mujeres, co...
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REDD+ as currently designed will contribute to a global land grab of communities' and Indigenous Peoples' lands and territories,which will particularly affect women, states a position signed by wo...
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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) m...
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It is one of the first laws of diplomacy: when it is hard to agree on an answer, change the question. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) schemes are the product of two of t...
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New publication exposes links between REDD and carbon trading, International Financial Institutions, extractive industries, GMO trees and biotech
No REDD, A Reader a...
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The Early Years
Since the earliest experiences of offsetting forest have been used as tradable carbon credits.1 The initial practice of forest offsetting in Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea in the...
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The dominant voices within the UN climate negotiations, together with corporate lobbies, mainstream NGOs and multilateral financial institutions, are pushing for another false solution to climate ch...
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The REDD+ Partnership intends to facilitate controversial forest payment schemes in advance of any UN climate agreement on an international framework to tackling deforestation.
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2012 Carbon Trade Watch