Support this declaration! Chico Mendes in the Standoff Against the False Solutions of Green Capitalism*
The declaration is open for sign-on in solidarity until 31 January 2019.
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REDD stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. Amended to REDD+ or REDD-plus, the concept includes forest conservation, sustainable forest management and the carbon that can be stored by “reforestation”, including through industrial tree plantations. Although REDD+ is directly related to tropical forests and deforestation, REDD+ is being debated by the UN under the Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) and seen by Northern countries as an important option for them to ‘reduce’ carbon emissions by paying someone else to provide the actual emission reduction for them, and by Southern countries as an opportunity of getting money for forest conservation. REDD+ pilot projects clearly show that REDD is a severe new threat for forest populations.
Actions
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To reject REDD+ and extractive industries to confront capitalism and defend life and territories
Due to the UN climate negotiations -COP20- and the Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change, held in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, over 100 organizations and social movements made a Call to Action to strongly and collectively reject REDD+...
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Your support in needed! The Sengwer people in Kenya is being forcibly evicted from its territory
Dear friends, your support in needed! The Sengwer people – an indigenous hunter-gatherer community in the Cherangany hills in Kenya- is being forcibly evicted from its territory. Many of us have been following closely the story, as...
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Open letter to the UN and its institutions and initiatives related to forest issues
On the occasion of March 21st, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as International Day of the Forests (1), the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and more than 300 signatories call on the General Assembly and UN Institutions and...
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Open Letter of Concern to the International Donor Community about the Diversion of Existing Forest Conservation and Development Funding to REDD+
The No REDD Platform has been collecting signatures from all over the world and would like to encourage other groups to support this initiative. With this letter we aim to alert communities, activists, civil society groups and social...
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Position on Women and REDD – Women and organizations at COP 16 of the CCC
Cancun, December 9, 2010 If you would like to sign the position as an individual or on behalf of an organization or network, please send an email to: mujeresporjusticiaclimatica@gmail.com Women and organizations at the 16th Conference of...
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Groups unite to challenge the definition of forests under UNFCCC/REDD
For Immediate Release 11 December 2008 Poznan, Poland (UN Climate Conference)–Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society, World Rainforest Movement, Global Justice Ecology Project, Via Campesina, the International Youth...
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Articles from the WRM Bulletin
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Fires, forests and peoples: knowledge and practices under threat
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Envira REDD+ project in Acre, Brazil: Gold certificate from carbon certifiers for empty promises
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California, United States: Decision on Tropical Forest Standard is postponed until April 2019
2018
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The Racist Colonial Roots of Western Forest Conservation: A look into a REDD project in Kenya
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The CBD’s interpretation of “biodiversity” opens the door to new forms of biopiracy
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Forests to the highest bidder in Nigeria: how REDD proves unable to stop deforestation
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Environmental regulation in the Green Economy: Changed to facilitate destruction
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Congo Basin Rainforest Project: Communities leery of “Conservation Revolution”
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Carbon Offsets and Trading: A logic that violates Indigenous and human rights
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Bribris: a people never conquered who are standing up to REDD
2016
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What do the criticism of the Pope’s encyclical by carbon market and REDD proponents reveal?
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Two bright shining lies teaming up: Certification roundtables and REDD+
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Territories being seized in Cambodia: protecting corporate profits
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Safeguarding Investment: Safeguards for REDD+, women and indigenous peoples
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REDD Alert! How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change
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Maputo Declaration of African Civil Society on Climate Justice
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Brazil: Forest Carbon Demonstration Project in the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve
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Biodiversity offsets facilitate continuation of business-as-usual destruction by mining companies
2015
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“Climate Smart Agriculture” – The Commodification of soils in the Global South
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“Blue Carbon” and “Blue REDD”: Transforming coastal ecosystems into merchandise
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Why are women fighting against extractivism and climate change?
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Mexico, Lacandon Rainforest: Montes Azules REDDeldía Movement
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Insisting on REDD is playing a game already lost for the climate and peoples
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DRC: handing lands for industrial oil palm plantations, REDD and foreign investors
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“Sustainable Forest Landscapes”: A new frontier for the commodification of nature
2014
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REDD Violation of the right to be consulted paves way for more REDD land grabbing
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REDD – Brazil: Open letter from Acre challenges legitimacy of REDD+ “consultation” in California
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Peru: REDD+ places the Amazon rainforest and biodiversity at the service of the financial market
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Denounces of racial intolerance and discrimination in UN-REDD
2013
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Southern countries and forests should expect no good from carbon markets
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New crossroads, same actors: The green economy of the powerful, voices of resistance of women
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Monoculture tree plantations and trade in environmental services
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In confronting the climate crisis, what rights should hold precedence?
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How can a price be placed on “environmental services”, and who benefits?
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Growing speculation: From the appropriation and commodification to the financialization of nature
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Environmental Human Rights Advocates Challenge REDD+ in Chiapas and in California
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Cambodia: First political risk insurance coverage for a REDD project
2012
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The world is watching as the Indonesia-Norway REDD deal stalls
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The necessary changes to genuinely celebrate the International Year of Forestsnter title here
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Mexico: REDD+ in Chiapas finances disease, death and intercommunity conflicts
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Indonesia: Sources of livelihood threatened by REDD+, mining and oil palm projects
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India: Forests and tree plantations under carbon offset schemes
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False solutions to climate change enabling land grabbing in Africa
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Declaration of the Third Special Conference for Food Sovereignty, Rights and Life
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At the end of the International Year of Forests, is there anything to celebrate?
2011
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The myth of GHG emissions reductions from “Sustainable Forest Management”
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India: Pushing “REDD plus” at the expense of forests and forest dwellers
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Hiding monoculture oil palm plantations under a business-friendly “forest” definition
2010
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Ecuador: Statement by the indigenous peoples against forest/REDD CO2lonialism
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Destroying with one hand, taking with the other: Biomass, REDD and forests
2009
Books and Briefings
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2019 | Halting Deforestation? REDD+ and the Protection of the Fossil Fuels and Conservation Industry
This September 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will make another attempt at pushing through the California Tropical Forest Standard.
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Halting deforestation? REDD+ and the protection of the fossil fuel and conservation industry
A compilation of articles from the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin on the occasion of the Global Climate Action Summit to be held 12-14 September, in California, United States
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Aviation and false solutions: The farce of the “Florestal Santa Maria” REDD project in Mato Grosso, Brazil
The FSM-REDD project has sold carbon credits to offset programs for at least two airline companies. Yet behind this is an increase in deforestation in the region, a history of land grabbing, the use of certifications that no longer exist and unfulfilled promises to local communities.
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What do forests have to do with climate change, carbon markets and REDD+?
WRM has produced a series of seven flipchart posters (below) and the booklet What do forests have to do with climate change, carbon markets and REDD+? To help community activists explain why REDD+ is not really about forests but about...
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How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change
A new joint publication by GRAIN and the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) looks at the dangers for peasant communities from one of the main carbon market mechanisms on the table at the upcoming UN summit on climate change in...
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REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies
REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest...
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REDD moves from forests to landscapes: More of the same, just bigger and with bigger risk to cause harm
Text: Jutta Kill Published in September 2014 (previously as an article of the monthly electronic bulletin of WRM of July 2014) Also available in Bahasa In the late 1980s, the FAO and the World Bank launched their first large...
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“Blue Carbon” and “Blue REDD”: Transforming coastal ecosystems into merchandise
Also available in Bahasa – Translated by KIARA Text: Winfridus Overbeek Photos: Redmanglar Internacional, Kiara, CPP, Canco Published in September 2014 (previously as an article of the monthly electronic bulletin of WRM of July...
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Observations on a private REDD project in the state of Acre, Brazil
Study conducted by the Centro de Memória das Lutas e Movimentos Sociais da Amazônia. Document published in “Leyes, políticas y economía verde al servicio del despojo de los pueblos” (Laws, policies and green economy at the...
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Masking the Destruction: REDD+ in the Peruvian Amazon
By Joanna Cabello, World Rainforest Movement Document published in “Leyes, políticas y economía verde al servicio del despojo de los pueblos” (Laws, policies and green economy at the expense of communities dispossession)...
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The Monte Pascoal‐Pau Brasil ecological corridor carbon, community and biodiversity initiative: another carbon offset failure
by Jutta Kill, World Rainforest Movement. Document published in “Leyes, políticas y economía verde al servicio del despojo de los pueblos” (Laws, policies and green economy at the expense of communities dispossession)...
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10 things communities should know about REDD
The main goal of this booklet is to inform communities about the serious problems that a REDD project can cause for the people involved. WRM has visited a number of these communities over the past few years. All of them,...
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Democratic Republic of Congo. Conservation International REDD pilot project: a different kind of Disney production
By Belmond Tchoumba This report is based on the fi ndings of research conducted by WRM on the REDD pilot project being undertaken by Conservation International and the Walt Disney Company in the province of North Kivu in the Democratic...
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REDD in the Congo Basin
The forest of the Congo Basin expands over an area of continuous tropical rainforest cover only second to that of the Amazon forest. The region’s forests are found in Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon,...
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From REDD to HEDD
WRM contribution to the Convention on Climate Change Forests, everyone knows, are good for the climate – which makes it all the more important that governments and international community should work to protect them. But many current...
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Carbon Neutral Magicians
Being “carbon neutral” has become fashionable. The World Bank, the Vatican, the World Olympics, the Football World Cup, the Body Shop, the Rolling Stones, and a long list of celebrities proclaim themselves to be totally or partially...
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News
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We Denounce and Resist the Green Economy’s Impacts on Women and Forests
Declaration by the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), March 2016 To Berta Cáceres and the Lenca People, the struggle continues! In March, the world commemorates two important dates: International Women’s Day (March 8) and...
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Maputo Statement: No REDD in Africa Network Declaration on REDD
The NO REDD in Africa Network gathered here in Maputo Mozambique, on 26 August 2013 during the occasion of an international workshop on REDD with participants from Mozambique, other African countries, North America and South America...
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Declaration of Chiapas in REDDellion: Enough of REDD+ and the Green Economy!
From September 25-27, 2012, subnational governments from six countries will arrive in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México, to promote and advance advance the new shadow program with which they hope, by way of...
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NGO / IPO Declaration on REDD – Protecting the world’s forests needs more than just money
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 13 Bali, Indonesia, December 2007 Governments meeting in Bali, Indonesia for the 13th Conference of the Parties/3rd Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations’ Framework...
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Other Relevant Information
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NGOs oppose the oil industry’s Natural Climate Solutions and demand that Eni and Shell keep fossil fuels in the ground
Oil giants Eni and Shell have both recently announced plans to use trees to offset some of their ever increasing carbon emissions. On May 13th, NGOs put out a statement opposing the oil industry’s attempts to avoid its responsibility for climate breakdown.
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Brazil: Letter of the Indigenous Peoples to the governments of Germany and California
Chiefs and leaders of indigenous peoples in Acre published a letter addressed to the governments of Germany and California, reporting that millionaire funds are coming to the state of Acre for REDD and PES payments, without transparency and benefiting few indigenous people.
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Support this declaration! Chico Mendes in the Standoff Against the False Solutions of Green Capitalism*
The declaration is open for sign-on in solidarity until 31 January 2019.
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Chico Mendes, 30 anos depois
(Only available in Portuguese) Os povos das florestas convidam a Marcha em Xapuri: Com Chico Mendes no empate contra o capitalismo verde. 14 de dezembro, 17 h, Xapuri, Acre, Brasil.
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Brazil: Sena Madureira Declaration, June 17, 2018
People from the forests gathered in Sena Madureira, Acre, to denounce the false solutions of green capitalism and demand their right to their lands.
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Sign the petition! African women demand that oil palm companies give back their land and stop the violence
Support African women! Sign the petition included on this article by filling the form enclosed below. Organized women who live around industrial oil palm plantations denounce different forms of violence. The United Nations proposed 16...
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Motion of rejection and solidarity with local leaders facing threats in Acre – Brazil
Press Release More than 80 organizations and individuals from all over the world sent today the letter enclosed below to relevant authorities in Brazil, Germany and California / USA rejecting “any and all attempts to intimidate...
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Xapuri Declaration, May 28, 2017
We, forest dwellers, rubber tappers, Apurinã, Huni Kui, Jaminawa, Manchineri and Shawadawa indigenous people, members of supportive organizations and the Jesuit Travelling Team, teachers from different universities, united in the city of...
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International Statement: Our Land is Worth More Than Carbon
The Paris Agreement enshrined the principle of compensation in dealing with the climate crisis. This means that emissions actually do not have to decrease but that emissions and absorption of carbon in vegetation and soil can cancel each...
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Aviation industry’s offset plans distracts from urgent need to reduce emissions, say environmental NGOs
4th April, Brussels – As member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the United Nations’ specialised aviation agency, gather in Utrecht to discuss ways to ‘offset’ emissions from the airline...
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Public Statement of the WRM to the California Air Resources Board
Subject: The proposal of the California government to include REDD+ offset credits from the state of Acre, Brazil, and from other states and countries with tropical forests. Montevideo, November 16, 2015 We learned that the California...
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Forest peoples and territories: Rights Violations in Acre, Brazil
In 2013, the Rapporteur on human rights to the environment (RDHMA, for its Portuguese acronym), from the DhESCA Platform, conducted a Research and Advocacy Mission in the state of Acre on the green economy problematic and its political and...
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New issue of the Mausam newsletter from India: talking climate in public space
The India Climate Justice collective has published the third issue of the Mausam magazine aiming to facilitate constructive and creative debates on climate issues. It attempts to connect these issues to local struggles over natural...
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Jornal Porantim – CIMI Bulletin Special Edition on Financialization of Nature
Only available in Portuguese. A financeirização da natureza significa o aprofundamento radical do capitalismo e, ao mesmo tempo, configura-se como um neocolonialismo. Os povos indígenas e as comunidades tradicionais são os principais...
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The green economy, forest peoples and territories: rights violations in the state of Acre
Fact-finding and advocacy mission preliminary report, by Cristiane Faustino y Fabrina Furtado Download the preliminary report as pdf...
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Two-years research into business links of the NGO WWF in all corners of the world uncover the true face of the panda
The Silence of the Pandas became a German bestseller in 2012. A series of injunctions and court cases launched by WWF delayed publication of the investigative report into English. A revised English edition, renamed Pandaleaks, has...
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REDD-Monitor
REDD is one of the most controversial issues in the climate change debate. The basic concept is simple: governments, companies or forest owners in the global South should be rewarded for keeping their forests standing instead of cutting...
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The So-Called “Green” Economy: the Last Looting Frontier
By OtrosMundos Chiapas. The so-called “Green Economy” is a new area of business. It is called “Green” not because it is good for the environment, but because its commodity is nature. We are seeing a stage of advanced Capitalism in...
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Colonialism and slavery never left: REDD+ in Asia and Africa
By SERVINDI . While the world’s governments debate the catastrophic consequences of global warming, a trading structure of global scope threatens to establish a new form of subjugation in Asia and Africa, by appropriating one of the...
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Deforestation, REDD and Takamanda National Park in Cameroon – a Case Study
By FPP. While focusing in particular on the German financing of rainforest protection in Cameroon, this report also covers the broader issue of how Cameroon’s forest policies are shaped by the REDD process. It takes a case study...
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Carbon versus food
A case study of the “Fair Forest Carbon compensation” project of French company Pur Projet, in the region of San Martin, Peru, which aims to generate carbon credits destined, initially, for the voluntary carbon market. In Peru...
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Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of canceling REDD
February 25, 2014 Download here the full letter in pdf format with the final list of sign-ons We, the No REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) together with the undersigned organizations and individuals, strongly condemn the massive evictions...
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REDD Monitor website
REDD Monitor website with articles and blog in English. Most widely read website with information and analysis critical of REDD and trading in ‘ecosystem...
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Contratos REDD: Despojo ilegítimo, por vías legales
Only available in Spanish. Por Diego Cardona, CENSAT Agua Viva Friends of the Earth Colombia, Available...
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Leyes, políticas y economía verde al servicio del despojo de los pueblos
Only available in Spanish. The Alianza Biodiversidad, Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) and World Rainforest Movement (WRM) have jointly published a new special edition (in Spanish) of the magazine...
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Warsaw COP19: So much distraction, so little real action
By FERN. Although no progress was made toward a new global climate treaty at the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in November in Warsaw, decisions were made concerning...
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Flawed Logic: Why forests cannot offset fossil fuel emissions
To coincide with the COP19 UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, Greenpeace has released a short briefing explaining why forests cannot offset fossil fuel emissions. By Greenpeace, November 2013 The fossil fuel industry frequently argues that...
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REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and forest Degradation
The Global Forest Coalition launched a new report on ‘REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and forest Degradation’ based on five case studies in Brazil, Colombia, India, Uganda and Tanzania elaborated by national...
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REDD plus or REDD “Light”? Biodiversity, communities and forest carbon certification
“REDD plus or REDD “Light”? Biodiversity, communities and forest carbon certification”, a new report in English by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), available...
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Africans Unite against New Form of Colonialism: No REDD Network Born
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 29, 2013 Contact: NnimmoBassey +216 21003908 nnimmo@eraction.org Outraged by the rampant land grabs and neocolonialism of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation), Africans at the...
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REDD, mercado de carono, pagamento por serviços ambientais Que são?
Only available in Portuguese. Forum Mudanças Climáticas e Justiça Social, Comissão Epsicopal Pastoral para o Serviço da Caridade, da Justiça e da Paz, Conselho Indigenista Missionário. Download here the full document in...
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How REDD and environmental services threaten the Lives of Forest People in Acre
By Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Rurais de Xapuri – Federação do Povo Huni Kui do Acre. What are the real problems of forest peoples in Acre? Why aren’t REDD and environmental services a solution to these problems? What concerns forest...
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REDD-plus schemes in El Salvador: Low profile, friendly fancy dresses and commodification of ecosystems and territories”
New report: “REDD-plus schemes in El Salvador: Low profile, friendly fancy dresses and commodification of ecosystems and territories” Announced in WRM Bulletin 180, the report by researchers Yvette Aguilar, Maritza Erazo and Francisco...
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Video: “Exposing REDD. The False Climate Solution.”
The news source Mending News checks in with IEN (Indigenous Environmental Network) Executive Director, Tom Goldtooth, to get the download on the real story of REDD, the deceptive climate ‘solution’ proposed by the UN. It sounds...
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Green Economy in Brazil, the privatization of the Atlantic Forest: impacts from REDD projects and nature reserves on women and men in traditional communities
by Winfridus Overbeek The forest known as the Mata Atlantica (Atlantic Forest) in Brazil is one of the richest biomes in the planet in terms of biodiversity. It used to cover most of the coast of the country. But the process of brutal...
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KARI-OCA 2 Declaration – Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on RIO + 20 and Mother Earth
We, the Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth assembled at the site of Kari-Oka I, sacred Kari-Oka Púku, Rio de Janeiro to participate in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20, thank the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil...
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NO REDD+! in Rio+20: A declaration to decolonize the earth and the sky
Introduction and notes by Chris Lang Source: http://www.redd-monitor.org Last week, the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD and for Life held a press conference denouncing REDD...
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Suffering here to help them over there – VIDEO
By FERN. Community voices about a forest carbon offset project.
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´What is REDD+? An introduction to forests and climate change
By Carbon Trade Watch This booklet aims to decode REDD+ * which is a focus in the international climate change debates. It will explore key ideas behind the complexities of REDD+ which link lands, forests and climate change. Although there...
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A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests – VIDEO
By Global Justice Ecology Project As policies and programs to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and to enhance forest carbon stocks (REDD+) are promoted around the world by global and national elites, Indigenous...
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REDD e Povos Indígenas – VIDEO
Only available in Portuguese – Depoimento (audiovisual) de José Luiz Kassupá sobre os impactos do mecanismo REDD na vida dos Povos Indígenas, durante a oficina “Serviços ambientais, fundos verdes e REDD: Salvação da...
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REDD e Cidades – VIDEO
Only available in Portuguese Depoimento de Sandra Lineia de Caritas Manaus (AM), sobre a relação entre o mecanismo REDD e a migração de populações tradicionais e rurais para as Cidades, durante oficina “Serviços Ambientais,...
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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 Verdes do BNDES: Salvação da Amazônia ou Armadilha do Capitalismo Verde?” (Environmental Services, REDD and...
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Amador Hernandez, Chiapas: Starved of Medical Services for REDD – VIDEO
Short documentary video by Global Justice Ecology Project In March, 2011, Global Justice Ecology Project traveled to the village of Amador Hernandez, within the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, deep in the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas,...
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REDD: An introduction
By REDD Monitor REDD, or reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, is one of the most controversial issues in the climate change debate. The basic concept is simple: governments, companies or forest owners in the South...
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The Carbon Hunters: On the trail of the climate’s hottest commodity
Video – In a remote corner of Brazil’s Atlantic coast, they say time is a fiction. This ancient forest is seemingly unspoiled by modern life — beyond the reach of men, machines, and markets. But a closer look reveals...
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NO REDD – A reader
NO REDD – A READER is a collection of articles written by REDD Monitor, Global Justice, Ecology Project, Censat Agua Viva, Amazon Watch, Acción Ecológica, COECOCEIBA-AT, OFRANEH, World Rainforest Movement, Carbon Trade Watch,...
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The Cancun agreement on REDD: Four questions and four answers
By Chris Lang In Cancun, after two weeks of tense UN climate meetings, negotiators came up with a firm agreement. They decided unequivocally to meet again next year in Durban. There are, of course, over 100 pages of mind-numbingly dull...
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Is REDD the New Green? Indigenous Groups Resist Carbon Market-Based Forestry Scheme to Offset Emissions
A controversial proposal to protect forests worldwide is on the table at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancún. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), would include forests in the emerging carbon...
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The Top 10: What’s wrong with REDD?
By Chris Lang – If you’re looking for a list of what’s wrong with REDD, then look no further. The Climate Justice Research Project at Dartmouth College has just produced this top 10 list (fully referenced version...
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“REDD Not Fixable Nor Reformable – Don’t Greenwash REDD” – UNFCCC, COP15: Indigenous Delegates at Climate Conference
By Rebecca Sommer At the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Indigenous participants are increasingly concerned about REDD. REDD stands for “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation”. The idea, as agreed by United...
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The hottest REDD issues: Rights, Equity, Development, Deforestation and Governance by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Prepared by the Task Force on Communities and REDD of the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy of IUCN in collaboration with the Global Forest Coalition. It is based on some of the best analysis produced by CEESP members...
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GenderCC Contribution to the UNFCCC on REDD
Poznan, December 6. GenderCC, a worldwide network whose main objective is to integrate gender justice in climate change policy at local, national and international levels, has submitted today to the Secretariat of the UNFCC and is...
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FERN Reports and Briefings on REDD
From Green Ideals to REDD money. A brief history of schemes to save forests for their carbon. November 2008, 6 pages. A short overview of latest developments with some basic conclusions and recommendations An overview of selected REDD...
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The CO2 Alibi – VIDEO
“My house and goats are dead, my house burned to the ground,” recounts a Ugandan farmer at the start of this downloadable film. “My coffee and banana trees were chopped down, and new trees were planted in their...
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Videos
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Brazil: Indigenous Peoples from Acre declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support to CIMI
Indigenous Peoples from Acre in Brazil declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support for the work carried out by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI). Feijó, State of Acre, Brazil, September 28th, 2017. LETTER OF...
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Disputed Territory. The green economy versus community-based economies
Produced by the World Rainforest Movement Interviews: Winnie Overbeek Camera and Edition: Flavio Pazos. A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil. In Brazil, the Atlantic Forest, which covered the country’s...
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