World Rainforest Movement
“Consultation” as a tool of exclusion: A choreography that hides land grabbing
Trade deals threaten peasant farmer’s stewardship of seed biodiversity
Territories and food sovereignty: Where the struggles of peasants and forest communities converge
REDD Alert! How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change
Why are women fighting against extractivism and climate change?
Tree factories: An overview of the impacts and interests behind GE trees
Plants designed for deconstruction? The use of wood cellulose for fuels
How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis
EU support for wood-based ‘bioenergy’ fuels forest destruction and land-grabbing
Declaration of the People’s Summit on Climate Change, Lima, Peru
Challenges for the struggles of women rooted in their territories: A decolonial perspective
Statement on Tree Plantations from participants at recent Forest Movement Europe meeting
Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
By Chris Lang The area of industrial tree plantations is expanding in the global South. Vast areas of monocultures have been established to feed raw material to the pulp and paper industry. This report investigates the role of European...
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Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the impacts of the oil palm plantations in the forestss. Oil Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel, Colonization Lives...
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Declaration from February 2016. The EU is provoking a global expansion in industrial bioenergy use and the rapid development and expansion of a global trade in biofuels and wood-based bioenergy. The EU already bears great responsibility...
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We, the signatories of this declaration, are calling on the European Union (EU) to exclude bioenergy from its next Renewable Energy Directive (RED), and thereby stop direct and indirect subsidies for renewable energy from biofuels...
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de EU Latin America. This video explains how a trade relationship – mainly based on the extraction of raw materials – is contributing to depletion of non-renewable natural resources, global warming and social...
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This report from the organization Corner House explores the question “What’s the alternative to current energy systems?” in a context of a growing climate crisis and increasing uncertainty over the future of fossil fuels. In energy...
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The NGO network ECA Watch is mapping social movements’ alternative proposals to the large-scale infrastructure projects, including water, energy or transport infrastructure. The aim is to spread information and proposals, and to...
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A global study carried out by the Poverty and Environment Network has helped in understanding the role forests play in enhancing people’s livelihoods, confirming that forests do provide an important source of rural income, but...
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Only available in Spanish – By Guadalupe Rodríguez, Salva la Selva. El acceso y abastecimiento de materias primas no energéticas, especialmente minerales metálicos y no metálicos, no ha recibido -al contrario que la cuestión...
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